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In Berlin and nearby Knötteritz, silent-film producer and actor Adalbert Musenfett hopes to cast himself as Napoleon in a film about the Battle of Leipzig. The farce also involves an Italian tragedienne and a tobacco-miller’s daughter who is meant to play his love interest.
Mrs. Cora Sabot is a domineering and haughty society matriarch who lives in Massachusetts. Her son Andrew plans on marrying the famous French stage actress Vivienne Rolland. Mrs. Sabot goes to Paris and decides that the actress is not of the caliber she wishes for her son, and therefore intends to stop the marriage. There she feigns drunkenness and fakes falling under the romantic influence of Guy Pennel, Vivienne's stage partner. However, she actually does become drunk and is comically transformed into a passionate woman. Mrs. Sabot's scheme works, and Vivienne realizes that she and Guy are meant to be romantic partners in life as well as on the stage. Andrew meanwhile understands that Brenda Kaley, as slow and obtuse as she is, will make the perfect wife.
Winifred disguises herself as a boy to join film producer Max Daly’s production of a Napoleon film. When Max falls for Italian actress Maria Gesticulata, Winifred mistranslates his love letter and Maria quits. Winifred takes Maria’s role, and Max does not discover that she is a girl until after the film is screened.
In Berlin and nearby Knötteritz, silent-film producer and actor Adalbert Musenfett hopes to cast himself as Napoleon in a film about the Battle of Leipzig. The farce also involves an Italian tragedienne and a tobacco-miller’s daughter who is meant to play his love interest.
Mrs. Cora Sabot is a domineering and haughty society matriarch who lives in Massachusetts. Her son Andrew plans on marrying the famous French stage actress Vivienne Rolland. Mrs. Sabot goes to Paris and decides that the actress is not of the caliber she wishes for her son, and therefore intends to stop the marriage. There she feigns drunkenness and fakes falling under the romantic influence of Guy Pennel, Vivienne's stage partner. However, she actually does become drunk and is comically transformed into a passionate woman. Mrs. Sabot's scheme works, and Vivienne realizes that she and Guy are meant to be romantic partners in life as well as on the stage. Andrew meanwhile understands that Brenda Kaley, as slow and obtuse as she is, will make the perfect wife.
Winifred disguises herself as a boy to join film producer Max Daly’s production of a Napoleon film. When Max falls for Italian actress Maria Gesticulata, Winifred mistranslates his love letter and Maria quits. Winifred takes Maria’s role, and Max does not discover that she is a girl until after the film is screened.