Café Metropole (1937) Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Adolphe Menjou

Victor Lobard (Adolphe Menjou), the smooth and nimble owner of the Café Metropole in Paris, has only ten days to replace a small fortune he embezzled from the business; he and a clerk face prison if he fails. He thinks he s won the money at a casino then learns he s in possession of a rubber check written by Alexander Brown, a wellmannered but penniless Yank (Tyrone Power). Lobard cooks up a scheme: to have Brown pretend to be a Russian prince, woo a visiting American (Loretta Young), and get her rich father to give Brown the money Lobard needs. Several problems: Brown s not a very good impostor, a real Russian prince presents himself, and the two young people fall in love.