Luxury Girls

Luxury Girls

...they learned about love the hard way!

NR 1952 · 100 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy, Romance

Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, and forced into rooming with - horrors - a scholarship student. But when a rich young American shows interest in her she is elevated to the international clique of the upper-termers. Then she falls in love with - horrors again - a poor local mountaineer.

Directed by Bernard Vorhaus · Written by Norma Barzman

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Susan Stephen Lorna Whitmore
Anna Maria Ferrero Valerie De Beranger
Jacques Sernas Jean-Jacques
Steve Barclay George Whitmore
Marina Vlady Eljay
Brunella Bovo Jeannie Gordon
Rossana Podestà Pereira
Elisa Cegani Madame Charpentier
Claudio Gora Professor Charpentier
Estelle Brody Mrs. Whitmore

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