Drunken New York playboy with kindly, British butler who cares for him like his son, is tamed by savvy young woman who sees the good in him and saves him from marrying the wrong woman. A wedding is interrupted (twice), his fortune is threatened, and everything turns out well in the end.
The twist here is that the savvy woman who saves the playboy is an heiress herself. When they meet, he does not realize who she is, he just assumes that she is just one more in a long line of party girls who end up sharing a Breakfast for Two with him in his penthouse apartment.
Barbara Stanwyck, a Texas heiress who out painting the town on what was to be her last night in New York before returning to Texas, learns of his financial troubles during their first, magical night together (they actually get "lost between the moon and New York City").
She recognizes his wasted potential and sets out to break him like they would break a horse back in Texas. So she buys his shipping company in an effort to cure him of his poor management, spendthrift habits and the gold-digger fiancé that all threaten to ruin his old, family business.
There is a cute dog, a boxing match, six Hasidim window washers, three weddings, a daffy Justice of the Peace, a couple board meetings, a proxy fight, a receivership hearing and a happy ending.
The twist here is that the savvy woman who saves the playboy is an heiress herself. When they meet, he does not realize who she is, he just assumes that she is just one more in a long line of party girls who end up sharing a Breakfast for Two with him in his penthouse apartment.
Barbara Stanwyck, a Texas heiress who out painting the town on what was to be her last night in New York before returning to Texas, learns of his financial troubles during their first, magical night together (they actually get "lost between the moon and New York City").
She recognizes his wasted potential and sets out to break him like they would break a horse back in Texas. So she buys his shipping company in an effort to cure him of his poor management, spendthrift habits and the gold-digger fiancé that all threaten to ruin his old, family business.
There is a cute dog, a boxing match, six Hasidim window washers, three weddings, a daffy Justice of the Peace, a couple board meetings, a proxy fight, a receivership hearing and a happy ending.