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After passing through Paris, popular American dancer Guy
Holden and his best friend, English lawyer Egbert "Pinky" Fitzgerald,
land in London for the final leg of their vacation. While waiting
at the London docks, Guy sees pretty American Mimi Glossop struggling
with her dress, which is snagged in one of her aunt Hortense's trunks,
and offers his help. In his haste to free Mimi, Guy pulls too hard
and splits the back of the dress. Although furious at Guy, Mimi
accepts his coat and his calling card, then storms away without
revealing her name or address.
Soon after, Mimi returns the coat anonymously through a
hotel bellboy, further frustrating Guy, who is now madly in love with
her. The desperate Guy drives the streets of London in search of
Mimi and by chance crashes into the back of her car. Mimi takes
off, but Guy pursues and eventually corners her in a park. After
he proposes to her, Mimi tells Guy she cannot see him again, but accepts
his telephone number and promises to call.
Later, Hortense, who was once engaged to Egbert, brings
the unhappily married Mimi to Egbert's law offices to discuss divorce
proceedings. Apprised that Mimi's husband Cyril, a neglectful
English geologist, has refused to grant Mimi a divorce, Egbert advises
that a professional co-respondent be hired. Unaware that Mimi is
the object of Guy's obsession, Egbert then convinces his lovesick friend
to accompany him to the seaside resort, Brightbourne, where the
co-respondent is to rendezvous with Mimi.
In Brightbourne, Egbert meets Rodolfo Tonetti, the
foppish Italian co-respondent, and tells him that his "password" with
Mimi will be "Chance is the fool's name for fate," a line spoken earlier
by Guy. That night, while Tonetti searches the hotel for his
liaison, whom he has never seen, Guy spots Mimi in the hotel restaurant
and immediately resumes his romancing. However, when Guy then
casually utters his line about fate, Mimi assumes that he is her
co-respondent and grows instantly cold toward him. Although
confused by Mimi's sudden hostility, Guy agrees to come to her hotel
room at midnight and there does his best to flirt with her.
Egbert, meanwhile, finally connects with a bemused Tonetti and directs
him to the correct room, while Hortense pulls Mimi aside and informs her
that her assessment of Guy is mistaken. After Tonetti enters her
room, Guy demands an explanation from Mimi, who finally confesses her
mission.
Egbert and Hortense then rush back to London to secure
the needed detectives, and Mimi convinces Guy to go along with the
scheme and accept Tonetti's presence. Defying Tonetti's orders to
stay in the room, Mimi and Guy sneak off, using the shadows of paper
dolls to make him believe that they are still there, and pursue their
romance on the hotel dance floor.
The next morning, Hortense and Egbert, having been unable
to find detectives, bring Cyril to the hotel. Although at first
defiant and unyielding, Cyril gives in to Mimi's divorce demands when a
hotel waiter unwittingly reveals to the group that he had met Cyril
under a different name and with a different "wife" in tow. While
Mimi and Guy celebrate her impending freedom, Hortense and Egbert
announce that they were married on the train from London. |
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