Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
Constance Bennett
as Kitty de Mornay
Gracie Fields
as Emmeline Quayle
George Rigaud
as Andre de Mornay
Kurt Kreuger
as Capt. Kurt von Weber
Eily Malyon
as Madame Martin
Vladimir Sokoloff
as Undertaker
Gregory Gaye
as Tissier
Leslie Vincent
as Lt. William Gray
Charles Andre
as Father Dominique
Richard Ryen
as Mons. Renard
Maurice Cass
as Patriot
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
as Margot
