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Heartbeat (1946)

• Director
  • Sam Wood
• Writers
  • Morrie Ryskind(adaptation)
  • Hans Wilhelm(original screenplay)
  • Max Kolpé(original screenplay)
• Stars
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont
  • Adolphe Menjou

  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.