I Was an Adventuress [296104] Released: 1940-05-10 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 81 mins Popularity: 0.9552 Vote Average: 6.3 Vote Count: 9 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... Cast [41] Vera ZorinaCountess Tanya Vrons Richard GreenePaul Vernay Erich von StroheimAndre Desormeaux Peter LorrePolo Sig RumanHerr Protz Fritz FeldHenri Gautier Cora WitherspoonAunt Cecile Anthony Kemble-CooperCousin Emil Paul PorcasiFisherman Inez PalangeFisherman's Wife Egon BrecherJacques Dubois Roger ImhofHenrich Von Kongen Rolfe SedanWaiter Eddie ConradWaiter Fortunio BonanovaOrchestra Leader Jean AckerMinor Role George BalanchineBallet Dancer Phyllis BarryEnglishwoman at Exhi Nino BelliniFrenchman at Exhibit Eugene BordenPorter Jack ChefeFrenchman at Exhibit Lew ChristensenBallet Dancer Ann CodeeFrenchwoman at Party Billy CookBellboy Franco CorsaroFrench Artist Yola d'AvrilFrenchwoman at Party Jean Del ValDetective Mario DominiciFrenchman at Exhibit Denis GreeneEnglishman at Party Leyland HodgsonEnglishman at Exhibi Crauford KentEnglishman at Party Jeanne LafayetteFrenchwoman at Party Charles LaskeyBallet Dancer Carl M. LevinessFrenchman at Exhibit Audrey MannersEnglishwoman at Part Alphonse MartellFrenchman at Exhibit Jean PerryDetective Albert PolletWaiter Jacques VanaireHotel Clerk Ellinor VanderveerEnglishwoman at Exhi Florence WixFrenchwoman at Exhib Trailers