Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Luise Rainer
as Louise Mauban
Paulette Goddard
as Nana
Alan Marshal
as Marquis Andre D'Abbencourt
Lana Turner
as Mado
Genevieve Tobin
as Gina Bertier
John Hubbard
as Fleury
Henry Stephenson
as Pasquel Sr.
Gale Sondergaard
as Madame Therese Charlot
Melville Cooper
as Boulin
Erik Rhodes
as Georges Mounier
Virginia Grey
as Simone
Ann Rutherford
as Yvonne
