Movie
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Drama · Crime · Romance
Story
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 Starring: Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre
I Was an Adventuress 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
- Egon Brecher as Jacques Dubois
- Roger Imhof as Henrich Von Kongen