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Paris Underground (1945)
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
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Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
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Genre:Drama, War
Written By:Boris Ingster, Gertrude Purcell
In Theaters:10/18/1945
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Runtime:96 minutes
Studio:United Artists, Constance Bennett Productions
Cast
Gregory Ratoff
Director
Constance Bennett
Kitty de Mornay
Gracie Fields
Emmeline Quayle
George Rigaud
Andre de Mornay
Kurt Kreuger
Capt. Kurt von Weber
Eily Malyon
Madame Martin
Vladimir Sokoloff
Undertaker
Gregory Gaye
Tissier
Leslie Vincent
Lt. William Gray
Charles Andre
Father Dominique
Richard Ryen
Mons. Renard
Maurice Cass
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