Réalisation:
Frank TuttlePhotographie:
Victor MilnerActeurs·trices:
Lili Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Irving Bacon, Rolfe Sedan, Claire Dodd, Gino Corrado, Harry Semels (plus)Résumés(1)
While on the way to the theater in Paris with her lover, Gerald Gray, Claire Mathewson loses her skirt in a limousine door to the delight of the crowd in the street. Arriving home in her slip, Claire is met by her husband Stephen, a javelin thrower supposed to be in Los Angeles for the Olympics, who has just discovered that Claire is planning a rendezvous in Venice. Caught in their lie, Gerald and Claire insist the trip was for two couples and Gerald sets out to find himself a wife. He hires the starving and respectable Germaine, believing that she is Chou-Chou, a sophisticated and glamorous actress. Once in Venice, Germaine and Gerald make love at breakfast and Claire becomes jealous, demanding that the actress leave Venice. Germaine, however, refuses to relinquish her fantasy of a romantic, extravagant Venetian vacation. Meanwhile, Stephen spends the afternoon with "Mrs. Gray" while Gerald and his friend Bunny get drunk, both believing they love the actress. That night, Bunny arrives drunk to take Germaine out in a gondola and Gerald intervenes, ordering Germaine to stay home. Then, as a gondolier sings in the moonlight, Gerald kisses her, but Germaine, tired of the façade, runs to her room, where she cries that she is not spectacular like Chou-Chou, but is respectable and wants only to be herself. Meanwhile, Claire, jealous of the actress' attentions toward Stephen, goes to Gerald's room to make sure Chou-Chou has left town, and Gerald tells his mistress she has fallen back in love with her husband. Bunny then falls off Germaine's balcony into the canal and Stephen, thinking that he is a prowler, rushes in to save Germaine. Claire and Gerald, finding Stephen in Germaine's room, fly into a rage, believing the actress is living up to Chou-Chou's bad reputation. Gerald then admits Germaine is not his wife, and Stephen admits he knew all along. When the police arrive with the soaked Bunny, Stephen is cleared of Claire's suspicion and they are reconciled. While Germaine leaves the hotel in a gondola, Bunny tells Gerald that Germaine replaced Chou-Chou, and Gerald runs after Germaine. As the gondolier sings, Gerald proposes to Germaine in the moonlight. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
![Lili Damita](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270984_b34aaa.jpg)
Lili Damita
France
Meilleurs films :
Les Mystères d'une âme (1926)
Le Convoi héroïque (1931)
![Charles Ruggles](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/496/496939_d44244.jpg)
Charles Ruggles
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
The Parent Trap (1961)
L'Impossible Monsieur Bébé (1938)
Haute pègre (1932)
![Roland Young](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/496/496804_35e23d.jpg)
Roland Young
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
L'Extravagante Mlle Dee (1948)
Indiscrétions (1940)
Six destins (1942)
![Thelma Todd](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/031/567/31567945_f25129.jpg)
Thelma Todd
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Counsellor at Law (1933)
Monnaie de singe (1931)
Plumes de cheval (1932)
![Cary Grant](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267996_646813.jpg)
Cary Grant
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
La Mort aux trousses (1959)
Charade (1963)
Vacances (1938)
![Irving Bacon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000029_a0f98d.jpg)
Irving Bacon
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Edison, the Man (1940)
Je suis un évadé (1932)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
![Rolfe Sedan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/093/886/93886009_fb1820.jpg)
Rolfe Sedan
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
La Chair et le diable (1926)
La Grande Farandole (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)
![Claire Dodd](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/162/159162560_d637a8.jpg)
Claire Dodd
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Le Chat noir (1941)
Roberta (1935)
Footlight Parade (1933)
![Gino Corrado](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/471/159471074_8c3e28.jpg)
Gino Corrado
Italie
Meilleurs films :
Le Dictateur (1940)
L'Aurore (1927)
Furie (1936)
![Harry Semels](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/093/160093444_4272a2.jpg)
Harry Semels
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Le Dictateur (1940)
L'Aurore (1927)
New York-Miami (1934)
Tiny Sandford
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Le Dictateur (1940)
Les Temps modernes (1936)
Le Cirque (1928)
Alex Melesh
Empire russe
Meilleurs films :
Arc de triomphe (1948)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Un jour aux courses (1937)
Davison Clark
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Mr. Smith au sénat (1939)
Les Misérables (1934) (série)
L'Amour en première page (1937)