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Dramatic School

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.

1938 |1h 20m |  Drama, Romance

Cast

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Luise Rainer

Louise Mauban

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Paulette Goddard

Nana

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Alan Marshal

Marquis Andre D'Abbencourt

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Lana Turner

Mado

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Genevieve Tobin

Gina Bertier

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John Hubbard

Fleury

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Henry Stephenson

Pasquel Sr.

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Gale Sondergaard

Madame Therese Charlot

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Melville Cooper

Boulin

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Erik Rhodes

Georges Mounier

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Virginia Grey

Simone

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Ann Rutherford

Yvonne

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Hans Conried

Ramy

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Rand Brooks

Pasquel Jr.

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Marie Blake

Annette

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Cecilia Callejo

La Brasiliana

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Margaret Dumont

Pantomime Teacher

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Frank Puglia

Alphonse

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Dorothy Granger

Fat Girl

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Gino Corrado

Waiter (uncredited)

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Dick Haymes

Student (uncredited)

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Minerva Urecal

Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)

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Barbara Weeks

Student (uncredited)

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Poppy Wilde

Nightclub Patron

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Leonard Mudie

Bishop Cauchon in "Joan of Arc" (uncredited)

More Details

Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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