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Heartbeat (1946)
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May 1946 (USA)
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A daring, exciting adventure...in the world's most exciting capitol!
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A young female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is caught red-handed...
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Hollywood remake from Gallic film with a Ginger Rogers as sparky pickpocket
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(Complete credited cast)| Ginger Rogers | ... | Arlette Lafron | |
| Jean-Pierre Aumont | ... | Pierre de Roche (as Jean Pierre Aumont) | |
| Adolphe Menjou | ... | Ambassador | |
| Melville Cooper | ... | Roland Latour | |
| Mikhail Rasumny | ... | Yves Cadubert | |
| Eduardo Ciannelli | ... | Baron Ferdinand Dvorak | |
| Mona Maris | ... | Ambassador's Wife | |
| Henry Stephenson | ... | Minister | |
| Basil Rathbone | ... | Professor Aristide |
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102 min
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Remake of Battement de coeur (1940)
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Can You Guess?
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A young girl( a lively Ginger Rogers) escaped from a reformatory, becomes the best student in a Parisian school for pickpockets(ruled by Basil Rathbone). At the beginning she attempts out her skills on an old man(Adolphe Menjou). Later when she tries to rob an attractive diplomat(Jean Pierre Aumont) they fall in love instead.
This fresh and funny farce is one the last works where director Sam Wood shows an increasing blandness in a lighthearted love story with comedy touches. Main and support cast is frankly outstanding. Top-notch, virtuoso acting by Ginger Rogers, she was the number one as dancer actress and a fascinating comedian: ¨Monkey business¨ and won an Oscar for her portrayal in ¨Kitty Foyle: natural story of a woman¨. Remaining cast formed by the French young Jean Pierre Aumont as dashing diplomat, the classic Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, the memorable Adolphe Menjou, Henry Stephenson as veteran Ambassador and the Italian Eduardo Ciannelli. Sam Wood was a good filmmaker, an expert director of actresses, almost all the magnificent acting in his movies were given by ladies, with the exceptions of the Marx Brothers in ¨Night at the Opera¨, and ¨A day at the races¨ and Robert Donat in ¨Goodbye Mr Chips¨; as are extraordinaries, Ann Sheridan and Betty Field in ¨King Row¨, it is Ingrid Bergman, marvelous when we remember her in ¨For whom the bells tolls¨, and of course Ginger Rogers in ¨Heartbeat¨ and ¨Kitty Foyle¨; these outstanding Rogers'performances are matched by Joan Fontaine's ¨Ivy¨, Gladys George's ¨Madame X¨ and Jean Arthur's ¨The devil and Miss Jones¨. Plus the picture packs a very high standard cinematography by Joseph Valentine.From the late 1920s Sam Wood was with MGM, where he remained until his death at 1966 with some exception as ¨Heartbeat¨ with RKO. Sam Wood angered the acting community by his work for Joseph McCarthy and his House UnAmerican Activities Committee.