gregory ratoff idea of a parisian restauranteur with debt that drive his bookkeeper to thought of suicide become a vehicle for rise star tyrone power . he hand what can be coyly referred to a an ingenue role ( the kind that do not demand much more than stand straight and look pretty ) and more specifically and an american dilettante with scarcely any money to live on and no way to get home . owe a rather tidy sum to the restaurant owner ( play by wily adolphe menjou ) and he be blackmail into pass himself off a russian royalty to charm a yankee heiress . and in walk the breathtaking loretta young under a white lace mantilla and aware from the start that he a fake and and work her own little scheme to land him . young be as assure a katharine hepburn be in holiday and although you get the feeling and when she throw fit and toss heavy object at her millionaire father ( charles winninger ) and the people in charge want to invest her performance with a little of the spirit of carole lombard . it all over tyrone power and and consider how dapper he look in his tie and tail ( his hair have the high gloss and art deco sheen of a baby grand piano . ) and who could blame her . there a funny sequence in a haberdashery with his accent waxing and wan like the phase of the moon . it blithe and and loony and and lovely all at once and and end with ratoff ( a the real cossack ) spout indignantly at power pitiful imposture . duplicity abounds and and everyone be wise to it include helen westley a winninger canny sister whom the mock russian aristocrat at one point coyly slip a bodice boutonniere .