Beg Borrow or Steal (1937)

We find conman Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges He and his wife Agatha have been separated for 15 years but he promises to give their daughter Joyce a lavish wedding at his château in France The fact that he doesnt have a château in France is just a minor trifle He induces the caretaker Bill Cherau of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do and her intended marriage to stuffedshirt Horace Miller stays on the books But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends Von Gersdorff Lefevre Iznamof Clifton Summitt and Sasch are all frauds and crooks Horace and his family stalk out which is just fine with Joyce as her true love the caretaker is waiting on the grounds