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"If Clair and Lubitsch were influences, Mamoulian was more successful in integrating music and sound effects, dialogue and lyrics than either of them. Nine Rodgers and Hart numbers are integral to the unfolding romance between 'the best tailor in Paris' (Chevalier) and a frosty vicomte (MacDonald) who he pursues over an unpaid bill. Mamoulian's visualisation of the whole film in musical terms (the complete music score was recorded before filming began) is apparent in the opening orchestration of the sounds and noises of Paris at dawn. The opening musical number, Isn't It Romantic, emerges from rhyming dialogue. Each of the songs develops the action and character, in this respect foreshadowing the classical musicals of the forties and early fifties."@en
"A carefree tailor (Maurice Chevalier) leaves Paris to collect on a past due bill at an aristocratic client's chateau. Mistaken for royalty, he attempts to woo a lovely princess (Jeanette MacDonald)."
""Struggling Parisian tailor Maurice Courtelin finds he has been bilked on a bill for fifteen suits by the Vicomte Gilbert de Vareze. When he discovers that de Vareze has a bad reputation with tailors all over Paris, Maurice becomes outraged and goes to the Chateau d'Artelins to collect his bill. Along the road to the chateau, Princess Jeanette narrowly avoids a collision of her buggy with Maurice's car. Maurice immediately falls in love with Jeanette and, although flustered and haughty, she is delighted by him. Neither are aware of the other's social status. When Jeanette goes home to the Chateau d'Artelins she faints, and the doctor recommends marriage to a man her age as a curative. Maurice arrives and de Vareze, afraid to expose his indebtedness, nervously introduces him to the Duke as a baron, thereby enabling Maurice to join the other guests of rank. While Maurice is on a royal hunt, Count de Savignac discovers that Maurice has no lineage, and informs the Duke. De Vareze then intimates that Maurice is actually royalty traveling under a nom de plume. A costume ball is thrown in honor of Maurice and he comes dressed as a Parisian 'apache.' He then follows Jeanette into the garden where they proclaim their love for each other. The next morning, Maurice dismisses Jeanette's seamstress and the insulted seamstress tells everyone that Maurice intends to sew Jeanette's riding habit. Soon Maurice must confess his true identity, appalling Jeanette and everyone in the chateau. Maurice collects his bill and boards a train for Paris, but when Jeanette realizes that she loves Maurice despite his lowly profession, she takes the fastest horse and catches up with the train, shouting that she would love to be a tailor's wife. Maurice does not accept this proclamation, so Jeanette stands on the train tracks until the train is forced to stop, and Maurice and Jeanette joyfully embrace"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
"A Parisian tailor accidentally moves into the aristocracy."@en
"A Parisian tailor begins a whirlwind romance with a princess after pretending to be a member of the nobility himself."@en
"A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess."
""Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into the family chateau and passes him off as a baron. The beguiling Maurice soon charms the entire aristocratic household, except for the haughty Princess Jeanette (Jeanette MacDonald), who remains suspicious of him. But suspicion eventually gives way to love"--Internet Movie Database."@en
"Un giovane sarto di bella presenza ma di modesta clientela ha l'occasione di essere convocato nell'alta società e si innamora perdutamente di una principessa..."
"A tailor is mistaken for royalty when he attempts to collect a past due bill from an aristocratic client."@en
"Cheated out of 15 suits by the deadbeat Viscount de Vareze, poor Parisian couturier Maurice Courtelin heads to the Chateau d'Artelines to collect the money that he is owed. Introduced as a Baron to hide the truth from de Vareze's uncle, Maurice woos the smitten Jeannette, a haughty princess who is unaware that the noble she has fallen for is just a common tailor."
"In order to defer paying off his tailoring bills, a penniless nobleman gives his tailor the run of his family manor and passes him off as a baron."@en