Midnight (1939)

Arriving in Paris with only the clothes on her back, American showgirl Claudette Colbert convinces cab driver Don Ameche to drive her around looking for jobs. She eventually gives the smitten Ameche the slip and finds herself joining a well-dressed crowd going to a concert, convincing the other patrons that she’s really a rich baroness. I’m not generally a fan of Colbert but still attracted to the roles she plays. Here she’s quite the heroine who knows what she wants and unabashedly goes for it. The film really picks up when Ameche relocates Colbert and the two constantly one up each other to the confusion of their high society hosts.