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I Was an Adventuress (1940)

I Was an Adventuress (1940)

Drama Crime Romance
Release Date: 1940, May 10
Directors: Gregory Ratoff
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Peter Lorre, Billy Cook, Yola d'Avril, Jean Acker, Nino Bellini, Eugene Borden, Franco Corsaro, Jean Del Val, Jacques Vanaire, Ellinor Vanderveer, Paul Porcasi, Erich von Stroheim

Overview:

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...

Keywords:

ballerina thief chase blackmail con artists impersonation jewels moral reformation imposture