Warning to Wantons (1949)

Plot Summary

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her strict convent school for the heady pleasures of high society. Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother and launches herself into Society with one aim: to conquer the hearts of all the men she encounters. Setting her sights on Max, a bridegroom-to-be, her expert scheming and manipulative behaviour soon ensures that he falls under her spell... but his fiancee isn't giving up without a fight

Full Cast & Characters

Harold Warrender

Count Anton Kardak

Anne Vernon

Renee de Vaillant

David Tomlinson

Count Max Kardak

Sonia Holm

Maria

Hugh Cross

Pauli

Marie Burke

Therese

Judy Kelly

Mimi de Vaillant

Ellen Pollock

Baroness de Jammes

André van Gyseghem

Oblensky

Bruce Belfrage

Archimandrite

Dennis Vance

Franklin Budd

Jack Melford

Maurice Lugard

Director & Crew

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