Film-Lovers Annual (1933)

7\ S in Maurice Chevaliers first American jTx. picture, “Innocents of Paris," there is a strong child interest in this delightful comedy; in fact, Monsieur Baby shares honours with Monsieur Chevalier. The story has just that necessary touch of daring and romance which provides the sauce for all Chevalier films. There is some astonishment in the neighbourhood when the highly-eligible Vicomte Rene de St. Denis ( Maurice Chevalier ) is seen wheeling a baby (Leroy Winebrenner) round the fashionable quarters of the town. Right: It is a somewhat pained butler (Edward Everett Horton ) who hands over to an equally astonished Vicomte a baby that has been found in his limousine. Sally (Helen Twelvetrees), whom the Vicomte engages as a nurse to the foundling. soon wins her employer's heart and loses her own. The Vicomte s friends, Max and his newly -acquired I wife, Paulette (Adrienne Ames), who was one of the former's flames, are introduced to Monstew Baby, whom they view with a certain amount »>/] suspicion. Exflames can sometimes prove rather embarrassing. A scene between the Vicomfe and Paulette. Above: The cause of all the trouble— and the happiness. The\ Vicomte' s chauffeur brings a strange parcel in from his employer's car, to the dismay •)/ that extremely tactful and polished butler, Edward Everett Horton. "Bedtime Story 88