poster

I Was an Adventuress

63% | May 10, 1940
Drama Crime Romance

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...

Top Billed Cast

actor1
Vera Zorina
Countess Tanya Vronsky
actor1
Richard Greene
Paul Vernay
actor1
Erich von Stroheim
Andre Desormeaux
actor1
Sig Ruman
Herr Protz

Featured Crew

crew
W.D. Flick
Sound
crew
Roger Heman Sr.
Sound
crew
David Buttolph
Music Director
crew
Gregory Ratoff
Director
crew
Karl Tunberg
Screenplay
crew
Don Ettlinger
Screenplay
crew
Nunnally Johnson
Associate Producer
crew
Edward Cronjager
Director of Photography
crew
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
crew
John O'Hara
Screenplay
crew
Francis D. Lyon
Editor
crew
Richard Day
Art Direction

Images

Videos