I Was an Adventuress (1940)
81 min
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
- Release date
- May 10, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Vera Zorina as Countess Tanya Vronsky
- Richard Greene as Paul Vernay
- Erich von Stroheim as Andre Desormeaux
- Peter Lorre as Polo
- Sig Ruman as Herr Protz
- Fritz Feld as Henri Gautier
- Cora Witherspoon as Aunt Cecile
- Anthony Kemble-Cooper as Cousin Emil
- Paul Porcasi as Fisherman
- Inez Palange as Fisherman's Wife
Crew
- Gregory Ratoff · Director
- Karl Tunberg · Writer
- Don Ettlinger · Writer
- John O'Hara · Writer
- Jacques Companéez · Writer
- Edward Cronjager · Cinematographer
- Leon Shamroy · Cinematographer
- Francis D. Lyon · Editor