The Earrings of Madame de...

“It was her vanity that destroyed her.”

In late nineteenth-century France, Comtesse Louise de... (Danielle Darrieux) sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to cover her secret debts, then tells him she has lost them. Général André de... (Charles Boyer) soon learns the truth, and Baron Fabrizio Donati (Vittorio De Sica) enters her life. Max Ophüls sets a marriage, a lover and a pair of jewels moving toward the point where someone has to pay for the lie.