In Paris, a young woman runs away from a reform school, joins a pickpocket academy, and finds herself falling for the handsome diplomat she's been blackmailed into stealing from.In Paris, a young woman runs away from a reform school, joins a pickpocket academy, and finds herself falling for the handsome diplomat she's been blackmailed into stealing from.In Paris, a young woman runs away from a reform school, joins a pickpocket academy, and finds herself falling for the handsome diplomat she's been blackmailed into stealing from.
Jean-Pierre Aumont
- Pierre de Roche
- (as Jean Pierre Aumont)
Ed Agresti
- Ball Guest
- (uncredited)
Rodney Mabrey Bell
- Student
- (uncredited)
Lulu Mae Bohrman
- Ball Guest
- (uncredited)
James Carlisle
- Ball Guest
- (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
- Ball Guest
- (uncredited)
Robert Cherry
- Student
- (uncredited)
Jack Deery
- Ball Guest
- (uncredited)
Fred Farrell
- Beggar Outside School
- (uncredited)
Adolph Faylauer
- Ball Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"Heartbeat" was the first collaboration of Ginger Rogers and director Sam Wood since RKO's Kitty Foyle (1940), for which Rogers earned her only Academy Award.
- Quotes
Yves Cadubert: When I lie, everybody knows it. Maybe I ought to go into politics where it doesn't matter.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Downriver (2015)
- SoundtracksCan You Guess ?
(The Heartbeat Song)
(uncredited)
Music by Paul Misraki
Lyrics by Ervin Drake
Sung by Ginger Rogers
Featured review
Looks Like There Was a Backstory To This Yawner
Before turning into a big yawner, the story starts off with a bang. Rathbone is a self-appointed professor of a pickpocket academy that he runs like a military school. There the fine arts of relieving people of their valuable personal possessions are taught and practiced in grand style. So I was prepared for the imaginative best.
But then the romance between Rogers and Aumont takes over and the talk never stops. That might be okay if Rogers were allowed her usual sparkly style. But she's not. Instead her character parades around in fluffy finery that a hundred lesser actresses could have managed. And that leads me to believe the studio, RKO, was using her celebrity to advance French import Aumont's career. That may also account for why an obviously over-age Rogers, 39, is miscast as a reform school "girl". That too might be okay if actor Aumont had more than one lifeless expression, but here he's about as engaging as an upscale manikin.
All in all, the romance that dominates drags the film into well-deserved oblivion. Too bad such able performers as Menjou and Cooper are largely wasted in the process. Wasted too is a promising pickpocket premise that could have produced real amusement. Anyway, I would advise fans of Rogers, myself included, to skip this disappointing entry. In short, there's a good reason it's unknown among the Rogers canon.
But then the romance between Rogers and Aumont takes over and the talk never stops. That might be okay if Rogers were allowed her usual sparkly style. But she's not. Instead her character parades around in fluffy finery that a hundred lesser actresses could have managed. And that leads me to believe the studio, RKO, was using her celebrity to advance French import Aumont's career. That may also account for why an obviously over-age Rogers, 39, is miscast as a reform school "girl". That too might be okay if actor Aumont had more than one lifeless expression, but here he's about as engaging as an upscale manikin.
All in all, the romance that dominates drags the film into well-deserved oblivion. Too bad such able performers as Menjou and Cooper are largely wasted in the process. Wasted too is a promising pickpocket premise that could have produced real amusement. Anyway, I would advise fans of Rogers, myself included, to skip this disappointing entry. In short, there's a good reason it's unknown among the Rogers canon.
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- dougdoepke
- Feb 2, 2019
Details
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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