May Robson has lived in Switzerland for the last three decades. Then lawyer Jeffrey Lynn shows up with the annual report and a letter which demonstrates er considerable wealth, amassed by her grandfather, was started by cheating a man, leading to his suicide and the impoverishment of his descendants. She returns to America to make arrears to his sole surviving descending, Priscilla Lane. She orders Lynn to present her with a check for a million dollars, but not to say where the money comes from. To understand whom she is bestowing this fortune on, she moves into Miss Lane's boarding house under a fake name. There she finds Miss Lane in a romance with grouchy, would-be musical genius Ronald Reagan. As for Miss Lane, she is thrilled at first, but soon discovers that money doesn't buy happiness.
Miss Robson, as always, is a delight, and so is Miss Lane, playing a sweet young thing. Even Ronald Reagan is funny. However, at a hundred minutes, this goes on too long, as it whipsaws its characters -- and the audience -- through a serious of reverses that are resolved, finally. Director Curtis Bernhardt pulls out all the stops with plenty of slapstick pratfalls -- Lynn is good, Reagan passable, and Miss Lane is doubled by a stunt performer. With a cast that includes Lee Patrick, Helen Westley, George Barbier, Walter Catlett and Richard Carle.
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