Scandal In Paris (1946) - (Movie Clip) They Call Me Sweet Loretta

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Shrewd Suspicion

Maneuvering himself into being made chief of police, con man George Sanders has assumed the name of a prominent local family and become a houseguest of the aristocrat police minister Houdon (Alan Napier), whose jewels he has stolen and hidden, and whose unsuspecting daughter (Signe Hasso) remains enthralled, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946.

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Little Poorer Than Honest

In the same year he narrated the opening to The Picture Of Dorian Gray, George Sanders introduces himself as the central character, the real person Eugene François Vidocq, and Akim Tamiroff as friend Emile, Douglas Sirk directing, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946, from Austrian ex-pat producer Arnold Pressburger, with Signe Hasso and Carole Landis.

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) It Looks Made For You

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Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Handsomer Than The Other Saints

Via apparent happenstance, the face of St. George in a fresco (?) at a church in provincial France is that of George Sanders, the star and central character Vidocq, and has bewitched Signe Hasso as Therese, daughter of a local police official (Jo Ann Marlowe her sister), their first encounter following, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946.