I Was an Adventuress

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...

Drama Crime Romance

Vera Zorina

(Countess Tanya Vronsky)

Richard Greene

Erich von Stroheim

(Andre Desormeaux)

Peter Lorre

Sig Ruman

Fritz Feld

(Henri Gautier)

Cora Witherspoon

Anthony Kemble-Cooper

Paul Porcasi

Inez Palange

(Fisherman's Wife)

Egon Brecher

(Jacques Dubois)

Roger Imhof

(Henrich Von Kongen)

Rolfe Sedan

Eddie Conrad

Fortunio Bonanova

(Orchestra Leader)

Jean Acker

(Minor Role (uncredited))

George Balanchine

(Ballet Dancer (uncredited))

Phyllis Barry

(Englishwoman at Exhibit (uncredited))

Nino Bellini

(Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited))

Eugene Borden

(Porter (uncredited))

Jack Chefe

(Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited))

Lew Christensen

(Ballet Dancer (uncredited))

Ann Codee

(Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited))

Billy Cook

(Bellboy (uncredited))

Franco Corsaro

(French Artist (uncredited))

Yola d'Avril

(Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited))

Jean Del Val

(Detective (uncredited))

Mario Dominici

(Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited))

Denis Greene

(Englishman at Party (uncredited))

Leyland Hodgson

(Englishman at Exhibit (uncredited))

Crauford Kent

(Englishman at Party (uncredited))

Jeanne Lafayette

(Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited))

Charles Laskey

(Ballet Dancer (uncredited))

Carl M. Leviness

(Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited))

Audrey Manners

(Englishwoman at Party (uncredited))

Alphonse Martell

(Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited))

Jean Perry

(Detective (uncredited))

Albert Pollet

(Waiter (uncredited))

Jacques Vanaire

(Hotel Clerk (uncredited))

Ellinor Vanderveer

(Englishwoman at Exhibit (uncredited))

Florence Wix

(Frenchwoman at Exhibit (uncredited))