Claudette Colbert stars in this droll romantic comedy from 1939. Colbert arrives in the City of Lights w/o a dime in her pocket & possibly w/o a hope of finding a job but she runs into a kindly cab driver, Don Ameche, who offers to run her around on the arm to see if she can change her luck. Feeling like she's overstayed his kindness, she leaves him finding herself impersonating a Baroness at a symphonic function, through no fault of her own, which prompts an aristocrat, played by John Barrymore, to use her to break up an affair his wife, Mary Astor, is having w/another while Ameche, desperate to reconnect w/Colbert, puts out an all points bulletin among his fellow cabbies (in hopes of winning a big raffle pot) to track her down which they do which sets up the final third where Ameche pretends to be Colbert's Baron & uncomplicating the mess all the players find themselves in. Written by Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett (based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz) plays fine but I felt the plot itself was a bit lopsided (Ameche is sorely missed from the picture even though he gets some dollops here & there) which prevented me from fully getting invested in the scenario. Also starring famed gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (who would appear as herself in Wilder's Sunset Boulevard) as a friend of Barrymore's & Monty Woolley as a judge.
