Beg, Borrow or Steal

Dec 3, 1937

1h 12m

★ 4.5

A Laugh-A-Minute romance!

Overview

We find con-man 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 doesn't 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 stuffed-shirt 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.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Ingraham Steward

Frank Morgan

Joyce Steward

Florence Rice

Count Bill Cherau

John Beal

Mrs. Agatha Steward

Janet Beecher

Von Giersdorff, aka Count Herman

Herman Bing

Lefevre

Erik Rhodes

Izmanov

George Givot

Lord Nigel Braemer

E. E. Clive

Horace Miller

Tom Rutherford

Mrs. Elizabeth Miller

Cora Witherspoon

Clifton Summitt

Reginald Denny

Sascha

Vladimir Sokoloff

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