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Dramatic School

What price fame for innocent beauties seeking careers in the theatre's spotlight!
Dec 9, 1938 · 1h 20m
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Drama
Romance

PLOT

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.

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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
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country
US

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