How A Foreign Affair performed
Budget
$1.5M
Worldwide Gross
$5.0M
Gross Profit
$3.5M
Return
3.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$768K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Romance) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
Jean Arthur
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
Erika Von Schlüetow
Marlene Dietrich
Erika Von Schlüetow
Captain John Pringle
John Lund
Captain John Pringle
Col. Rufus J. Plummer
Millard Mitchell
Col. Rufus J. Plummer
Hans Otto Birgel
Peter von Zerneck
Hans Otto Birgel
Mike
Stanley Prager
Mike
Joe
William Murphy
Joe
Military Police
Gordon Jones
Military Police
Military Police
Freddie Steele
Military Police
Pennecot
Raymond Bond
Pennecot
Giffin
Boyd Davis
Giffin
Kramer
Robert Malcolm
Kramer
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