Josette (1938)

Two brothers (Don Ameche, Robert Young) attempt to save their father (William Collier Sr.) from a gold digging French chanteuse (Tala Birell). However, they mistake a struggling singer (Simone Simon) working as a wardrobe mistress in a nightclub for the French chanteuse. Based on the play by Paul Frank and Georg Fraser and directed by Allan Dwan (SLIGHTLY SCARLET). A very slight piece of fluff but I'm a bit partial to mistaken identity comedies so I enjoyed it in spite of the predictability and inevitability of the situation. Simone Simon is charming and Robert Young is delightful as a girl chasing cad which leaves the dull Don Ameche, who's okay as his character is supposed to be a bit bland but he has one of the worst drunk scenes I've ever seen. It's so inept that I thought his character was pretending to be drunk only to find out that he was really supposed to be drunk! With Lynn Bari, Joan Davis, Bert Lahr and William Demarest.