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
Luise Rainer
Louise Mauban
Paulette Goddard
Nana
Alan Marshal
Marquis Andre D'Abbencourt
Lana Turner
Mado
Genevieve Tobin
Gina Bertier
John Hubbard
Fleury
Henry Stephenson
Pasquel Sr.
Gale Sondergaard
Madame Therese Charlot
Melville Cooper
Boulin
Erik Rhodes
Georges Mounier
Virginia Grey
Simone
Ann Rutherford
Yvonne
Hans Conried
Ramy
Rand Brooks
Pasquel Jr.
Jean Chatburn
Mimi
Marie Blake
Annette
Cecilia Callejo
La Brasiliana
Margaret Dumont
Pantomime Teacher
Frank Puglia
Alphonse
Dorothy Granger
Fat Girl
Gino Corrado
Waiter (uncredited)
Dick Haymes
Student (uncredited)
Minerva Urecal
Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)
Barbara Weeks
Student (uncredited)
Poppy Wilde
Nightclub Patron
Leonard Mudie
Bishop Cauchon in "Joan of Arc" (uncredited)
Crew
Robert B. Sinclair
Director
Ernest Vajda
Screenplay
Mary C. McCall, Jr.
Screenplay
Fredrick Y. Smith
Editor
William H. Daniels
Director of Photography
Mervyn LeRoy
Producer
Adrian
Costume Design
Douglas Shearer
Sound Recordist
Franz Waxman
Original Music Composer
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Hans Székely
Theatre Play
Zoltan Egyed
Theatre Play
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
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