I Was an Adventuress
6.5(10) 1940-05-10 81 minDramaCrimeRomance
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...
DirectorGregory Ratoff
ScreenplayKarl Tunberg
ScreenplayDon Ettlinger
ScreenplayJohn O'Hara
WriterDarrell Ware
Cast & characters
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
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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
Rolfe Sedan
as Waiter
Eddie Conrad
as Waiter
Fortunio Bonanova
as Orchestra Leader
Jean Acker
as Minor Role (uncredited)
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George Balanchine
as Ballet Dancer (uncredited)
Phyllis Barry
as Englishwoman at Exhibit (uncredited)
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Nino Bellini
as Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited)
Eugene Borden
as Porter (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
as Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited)
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Lew Christensen
as Ballet Dancer (uncredited)
Ann Codee
as Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited)
Billy Cook
as Bellboy (uncredited)
