Cairo

• Robert Young is a reporter from a small town who gets assigned to the War as a stringer for all the small town papers. We see various headlines of his, then see him floating on wreckage in the Mediterranean Sea. Up pops Reginald Owen, who deputes him to do a spot of spying for him when he gets back to land. Then next thing he's in Cairo, where he thinks Nazi spy Mona Barrie is copacetic, but American movie queen Jeanette MacDonald is a Nazi spy. So he gets a job as her butler. Soon enough, she decides he's a spy, and they have a go-around until the inevitable happy ending.

It's Miss MacDonald's last movie on her contract at Metro. So they set up this piece of work, with lots of opportunities for director Woody Van Dyke to offer pratfalls, confusion, and Miss MacDonald singing. Ethel Waters is present as her maid, and she sings too; I prefer her interpretations. Even Young sings, in between the arguments about Northern and Southern California and general flag waving, With Grant Mitchell, Lionel Atwill, Eduardo Ciannelli and Dooley Wilson.