Heartbeat (1946)
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A remake of the 1939 French film Battement de Couer, Heartbeat reunites star Ginger Rogers with her Kitty Foyle director Sam Wood. Ms. Rogers plays Arlette, a reform school alumnus who is recruited by Faginlike Professor Aristide, headmaster at a school for pickpockets. Before long, Arlette becomes Aristide's prize pupil, and is being groomed for bigger things. Assigned by a corrupt foreign ambassador (Adolphe Menjou) to steal a valuable watch from wealthy and handsome diplomat Pierre (Jean Pierre Aumont), Arlette not only bungles the job, but also falls in love with her would-be victim. Heartbeat wasn't the first mediocre American remake of a French film, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, (more)
- Director(s):
- Sam Wood
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Heartbeat
A remake of the 1939 French film Battement de Couer, Heartbeat reunites star Ginger Rogers with her Kitty Foyle director Sam Wood. Ms. Rogers plays Arlette, a reform school alumnus who is recruited by Faginlike Professor Aristide, headmaster at a school for pickpockets. Before long, Arlette becomes Aristide's prize pupil, and is being groomed for bigger things. Assigned by a corrupt foreign ambassador (Adolphe Menjou) to steal a valuable watch from wealthy and handsome diplomat Pierre (Jean Pierre Aumont), Arlette not only bungles the job, but also falls in love with her would-be victim. Heartbeat wasn't the first mediocre American remake of a French film, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 100 mins
Complete Cast of Heartbeat
- Ginger Rogers - Arlette Lafon
- Adolphe Menjou - Ambassador
- Mikhail Rasumny - Yves Cadubert
- Henry Stephenson - Minister
- Sam Harris - Ball Guest
- Ivan Lebedeff
- Mona Maris - Ambassador's Wife
- Jean-Pierre Aumont - Pierre La Roche
- Melville Cooper - Roland Medeville
- Basil Rathbone - Prof. Aristide
- Eduardo Ciannelli - Baron Dvorak
- Eddie Hayden - Fat Thief
- George Davis - Butler
- Torben Meyer
- Director(s):
- Sam Wood
- Writer(s):
- Morris Ryskind, Hans Wilhelm, Rowland Leigh
- Producer(s):
- Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim
- Categories:
- Romance
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