Plot
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
Cast
as Phoebe Throssel
as Dr. Valentine Brown
as Recruiting Sergeant
as Susan Throssel
as Patty
as Mary Willoughby
as Charlotte Parratt
as Lieutenant Spicer
as Isabella
as William Smith
Gallery
Reviews
In a London street full of curtain-twitchers, the chatter is rife when someone buys a cake! Who might be coming to luncheon? Well, quickly we discover that “Dr. Brown” (Franchot Tone) is coming to visit “Phoebe” (Katharine Hepburn). What he delivers, though, isn’t quite what she expects and off to the Napoleonic wars he goes. A decade later, he returns but seems disappointed that she, too, has ag…