The Girl in the Taxi

Raimu, no less, came to Ealing to play the hypocritical bluestocking (described by one of his lady friends as "the original sugar daddy") in the French version of this saucy comedy with songs directed by André Berthomieu (signed in the French style simply as 'Berthomieu'), but in this Anglophone version his role is taken by Lawrence Grossmith. It served it's purpose, however, as the Hollywood calling card of supervisor Kurt Bernhardt.

Henri Garat is the only actor in both versions, but you hardly notice that he's in it. Billed above the title, blonde thirties West End bombshell Frances Day registers far more strongly, along with a wry Helen Haye as the old goat's quietly knowing wife.