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What price fame for innocent beauties seeking careers in the theatre's spotlight!
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.Read moreLess
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
The story
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Cast & crew
Luise RainerLouise Mauban
Paulette GoddardNana
Alan MarshalMarquis Andre D'Abbencourt
Lana TurnerMado
Genevieve TobinGina Bertier
John HubbardFleury
Henry StephensonPasquel Sr.
Gale SondergaardMadame Therese Charlot
Melville CooperBoulin
Erik RhodesGeorges Mounier
Virginia GreySimone
Ann RutherfordYvonneExplore the crew
- Director
- Robert B. Sinclair
- Screenplay
- Ernest Vajda
- Screenplay
- Mary C. McCall, Jr.
- Editor
- Fredrick Y. Smith
- Director of Photography
- William H. Daniels
- Original Music Composer
- Franz Waxman
- Producer
- Mervyn LeRoy