It’s All Yours 1937

Jimmy Barnes, Francis Lederer, returns from Europe to be educated by his ultra-wealthy uncle, Edward J. Barnes, and within five years has become a flamboyant lawyer whose extravagant escapades are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray, Madeleine Carroll, is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes who has fallen in love with Jimmy, but he favors Constance ‘Connie’ Marlowe. Mr. Barnes dies and leaves everything to Linda, but he urges his partner, Alexander Duncan, to plan that Jimmy and Linda will get married. Under Duncan’s guidance, Linda accepts the inheritance and announces that she is departing for New York on a wild spending spree. He tells Jimmy that the will can be broken but only after many months, and he suggests that Jimmy follow Linda and curb her spending or there won’t be any money left. In New York, Linda hires Francis Lederer as her private secretary. Connie also arrives in New York, as does the suave Baron Rene de Montigny Mischa Auer with the intention of marrying the wealthy Miss Gray. Linda keeps Jimmy so busy he can’t see Connie, while she, to make Jimmy jealous, starts dating Rene. When Rene proposes, she tells him she has no money, and he replies that he couldn’t marry a poor girl but will coach her in how to catch Jimmy. The latter, now jealous, rushes to Linda’s apartment and attacks Rene, who—being the amateur prize-fighter champion of France—knocks him out.