Charles Farrell is a Tennessee painter who wins a scholarship to Paris. On arrival he settles into an apartment in Montmartre, where the zany occupants include Charlie Ruggles, Gregory Ratoff, and Marguerite Churchill. Soon he and Miss Churchill are in love, but the other roomers are busy spending his scholarship money and filling him with hooey. Then Miss Churchill sees the painting he has done under their influence, she calls it terrible. They break up.
The movie starts off briskly with the events given in recitative, but it sags in the second half, despite Ruggles' quavering, good-natured nonsense and Grace Bradley as a peroxide Russian gold digger. It never quite recovers, but the lively first half and occasional bouts of nonsense keep it moving throughout.
The movie starts off briskly with the events given in recitative, but it sags in the second half, despite Ruggles' quavering, good-natured nonsense and Grace Bradley as a peroxide Russian gold digger. It never quite recovers, but the lively first half and occasional bouts of nonsense keep it moving throughout.