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Miss Ethel Dynamite Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakenly receives an invitation from the State Department to represent the American theatre at an arts exposition in Paris, France. Theres only one problem: the invitation was meant for Miss Ethel Barrymore. Meanwhile, S. Winthrop Putnam, the bureaucrat who made the mistake, tries unsuccessfully to correct his mix-up. Its too late, for Dynamite Jackson is off to Paris, where the two meet and marry, or so they think.
S. Winthrop Putnam - first name Sam - is the Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for the US State Department. He has been able to get as far as he has in his career in part because he is engaged to Marcia Sherman, the daughter of his boss Robert Sherman, the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State. The feather in his cap may be arranging the Paris Festival, an international festival highlighting the best in several areas of the performing arts. However, he makes a gaffe - sending the letter of invitation for the US theater representative who was supposed to be to a New York chorus girl named Ethel Dynamite Jackson instead - that may ruin his career, especially as Ethel Jackson has already received the invitation and is raring to go. After his initial panic, Winthrop is happy to learn that the media has picked up on the story which in turn has made Sherman come to the conclusion that sending someone from the rank and file like Miss Jackson is a stroke of genius. The trip is nothing as Ethel imagines, as it entails many lessons in refinement so that she doesnt embarrass the US government. Although Ethel and Winthrop get off to a rocky start because of many of these issues, the two fall in love. Sam, as Ethel calls Winthrop, has to decide if his love for Ethel or his career is more important. The course of true love is assisted along the way by Philippe Fouquet, a womanizing French national in the US, he, penniless, who is trying to make his way back home to Paris.
Doris Day
Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson
Ray Bolger
S. 'Sam' Winthrop Putnam
Claude Dauphin
Philippe Fouquet
Eve Miller
Marcia Sherman
George Givot
François
Paul Harvey
Secretary Robert Sherman
Herbert Farjeon
Joshua Stevens
Wilson Millar
Sinclair Wilson
Raymond Largay
Joseph Welmar
John Alvin
Tracy
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Stagehand
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Delegate
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Ship Passenger
Mary Benoit
Secretary
Andrew Berner
Jacques Fouquet
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