I Was an Adventuress

I Was an Adventuress

NR 1940 · 81 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Crime, Romance

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...

Directed by Gregory Ratoff · Written by Karl Tunberg

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Vera Zorina Countess Tanya Vronsky
Richard Greene Paul Vernay
Erich von Stroheim Andre Desormeaux
Peter Lorre Polo
Sig Ruman Herr Protz
Fritz Feld Henri Gautier
Cora Witherspoon Aunt Cecile
Anthony Kemble-Cooper Cousin Emil
Paul Porcasi Fisherman
Inez Palange Fisherman's Wife
Egon Brecher Jacques Dubois
Roger Imhof Henrich Von Kongen

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