Jeannie 1941

Jeannie McLean Barbara Mullen is a young Scottish woman who cares for her tightfisted father, leaving her little time or money for herself. When he dies, she discovers he has left his fortune—297 pounds—solely to her, with nothing for her married sisters. She decides to have some fun for a change, starting with a trip to Vienna.

On the way to and in Vienna, a stranger, Stanley Smith Michael Redgrave helps her through various difficulties resulting from her inexperience. As they become acquainted, she tells him she is 26, but he soon discovers from her passport that she is 22.

In Vienna, Jeannie makes the acquaintance of Count Ehrlich von Wittgenstein Albert Lieven, while Stanley gets to know a blonde model named Margaret Kay Hammond. The next day, Stanley sets out to market his invention, a washing machine, while the count takes Jeannie on a tour of the city. She goes shopping for clothes. When Stanley sees her that night, she is completely transformed outwardly. Stanley asks her out, but she is already engaged to go to the opera with the count. Stanley takes Margaret there too. Everywhere the count takes Jeannie, Stanley arranges to be there as well, along with Margaret. Finally, the count asks Jeannie to marry him, but when he learns that she is not rich as he thought, he breaks it off. Jeannie has just money enough left to get home.

Stanley has great success selling his washing machines, but when he goes to Scotland to find Jeannie, no one knows where she is. As luck would have it, she has found work demonstrating Stanley’s product. He proposes to her, and after some resistance, she gives in.