Dramatic School
What price fame for innocent beauties seeking careers in the theatre's spotlight!
1938 · 1h 20m · PASSED
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Robert B. Sinclair
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Robert B. Sinclair Director
- Luise Rainer as Louise Mauban
- Paulette Goddard as Nana
- Alan Marshal as Marquis Andre D'Abbencourt
- Lana Turner as Mado
- Genevieve Tobin as Gina Bertier
- John Hubbard as Fleury
- Henry Stephenson as Pasquel Sr.
- Gale Sondergaard as Madame Therese Charlot
- Melville Cooper as Boulin
- Erik Rhodes as Georges Mounier
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