Beating Heart (film)  Beating Heart () is a 1940 French film directed by Henri Decoin, and starring Danielle Darrieux and Claude Dauphin. It tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him. The film was remade as "Heartbeat" (1946), with Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone.