The staff at the grand house of “Drake” (Leon Errol) might have known the writing was on the wall when their pay cheques didn’t arrive for the seventh month in a row. Yep! The old man is bust. Not to be beaten, his imaginative valet “O’Brien” (Jack Haley) comes up with quite a wheeze to make them solvent again. The staff are going to perform a bit of George Bernard Shaw on parlour maid “Millie” (Michèle Morgan) and turn her into the eligible daughter of the house and so, hopefully, procure an advantageous marriage with a man who has more money than sense. She turns out to be not half bad at gl…
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