Carole Lombard burns through Paris and London while a fake count chases her—and his own lies catch fire.
An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London.
Acting
Lombard's physical comedy is surgical precision disguised as chaos.
Production
Paris and London sets built on Culver City backlots—glorious artifice.
Costume
Travis Banton gowns that scream 'I have a trailer and I know it.'
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Carole Lombard
Kay Winters
Fernand Gravey
Rene
Ralph Bellamy
Phillip Chester
Allen Jenkins
Dewey Gibson
Isabel Jeans
Lady Paula Malverton
Marie Wilson
Myrtle
Marcia Ralston
Jill
Ottola Nesmith
Agnes
Heather Thatcher
Lady Potter-Porter
Tempe Pigott
Bessie
Michelette Burani
Mme. Brioche
Jeni Le Gon
Specialty
Jane Wyman
Party Guest (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lombard rewrote much of her own dialogue and clashed with LeRoy over pacing—she wanted faster, he wanted breath. She won.
Released during the Munich Crisis, this froth was exactly what audiences craved as Europe darkened. The escapism is political.
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