Idiot's delight

"Gable stars as the head of a traveling group of singers when he meets a woman claiming to be a Russian aristocrat. He suspects she is someone he once knew in vaudeville, and sets out to prove it."@en
"A prologue was added to Sherwood's now dated anti-war play to set up Gable and Shearer's fateful romance. Sherwood's political argument was also reduced to a generalised futility-of-war message. The main part of the film, set in a hotel somewhere in Europe, has a 'Ship of Fools' group thrown together by the exigencies of war. The main interest is Shearer as a vaudeville acrobat from Omaha posing as a Russian countess, a larger-than-life femme fatale, the mistress of an armaments king, and Gable as her fellow vaudevillian. To entertain the hotel guests Gable does a song and dance routine for the only time on film."@en
"In this comedy set in Europe between the wars, Clark Gable portrays a song-and-dance man performing with his troupe at an Alpine inn, where he encounters Norma Shearer, a mysterious blonde who may or may not be a Russian countess."
"In this comedy set in Europe between the wars, Clark Gable portrays a song-and-dance man performing with his troupe at an Alpine inn, where he encounters Norma Shearer, a mysterious blonde who may or may not be a Russian countess."@en