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American
nightclub entertainer Larry Martin, who has been working in Rio de Janeiro
for six months, delights audiences with his impersonation of Baron Manual
Duarte, a well-known investment banker and lothario who bears a striking
resemblance to Larry. One evening, the baron, his American wife
Cecilia and his advisors, Arthur Penna and Felicio Salles, attend the show
and are impressed by Larry's performance. After the show, Duarte
receives word that an important business deal, for which he "borrowed"
twenty million of the bank's money, is about to fall through.
The next day, Penna and Salles discover that the baron has
left for Buenos Aires, where he hopes to raise the necessary funds, and that
they are to cover for him. Afraid that Duarte's chief rival, Machado,
will take advantage of his absence, Penna and Salles offer Larry a job
impersonating the baron while he is gone. Larry agrees on the
condition that they do not tell Cecilia, with whom he flirted at the club,
and goes with them to the stock exchange.
Penna and Salles are forced to leave Larry alone for a few
moments, and he unwittingly buys a large amount of stock in the airplane
company causing the baron's problems. They then hustle Larry back to
the Duarte home, where that evening the baron and Cecilia are to host a
reception for an ambassador. Cecilia, who quickly guesses that Larry
is not the baron because of his kind treatment of her, is prevailed upon by
Penna and Salles not to let Larry know she is aware of the scheme. The
evening progresses smoothly as Larry and Cecilia flirt and carry off the
impersonation in front of the guests. Before the party ends, the baron
returns after getting the needed funds. Penna and Salles "exchange"
Larry for the baron, but not before Machado pigeon holes Larry and conducts
a business deal in French, which Larry does not understand.
Later that night, the baron, jealous of Cecilia's attentions
to Larry, accompanies her to her dressing room and tries to get her to admit
that she is in love with Larry. Although Cecilia did not know that her
husband had returned, she realizes that it is he, and to teach him a lesson,
pretends that she loves Larry.
The next morning, Duarte deduces that Cecilia knew the truth
and decides to turn the tables on her by having his employees tell her that
he did not return until the morning. While Cecilia frantically worries
that she was romancing Larry instead of Duarte, Machado arrives at the
baron's office. It turns out the deal he concluded with Larry was to buy the
airline, including the newly purchased stock, at a handsome profit for the
baron. As the baron signs the papers, Larry goes to see Cecilia to ask
for a letter of recommendation, which will also assuage the jealousy of his
girl friend Carmen. When Larry explains that he left the house before
midnight the previous evening, Cecilia figures out that Duarte is trying to
trick her. Just then, Duarte returns home and, in a whispered
conference with Larry, admits that he loves Cecilia and will cease his
playboy ways. After Larry leaves, Duarte carries Cecilia upstairs, and
later, the happy couples sing together at the nightclub. |
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