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I Was an Adventuress

I Was an Adventuress (1940)

1h 21m | PG-13

⭐ 6.3 / 10

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...

Director: Gregory Ratoff

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance

Video: 720p

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Cast

Vera Zorina

Vera Zorina

as Countess Tanya Vronsky

Richard Greene

Richard Greene

as Paul Vernay

Erich von Stroheim

Erich von Stroheim

as Andre Desormeaux

Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

as Polo

Sig Ruman

Sig Ruman

as Herr Protz

Fritz Feld

Fritz Feld

as Henri Gautier