A Millionaire for Christy

A Millionaire for Christy is a 1951 comedy film directed by George Marshall, and starring Fred MacMurray and Eleanor Parker. A screwball comedy, where Christy Sloane Parker is a legal secretary from San Francisco who is sent to California to inform radio host Peter Lockwood MacMurray that he has just inheritedmillion.

When Christy knocks on Peters apartment door, she is surprised by his good looks and impulsively swoons in his arms. The halfdressed Peter, baffled by the mysterious womans appearance and with his living room cluttered by his luggage, carries her to his bed. Christy awakens and acts seductively, but Peter, in reality a notorious ladies man, believes she is mentally unstable and is unmoved. Just then his friend, psychiatrist Roland Doc Cook Richard Carlson, who despite his irritation over losing June to Peter is to be best man at the wedding, enters the apartment and assumes that Peter is having one last fling before his marriage. While Christy is trying to explain her mission from his bathroom, Peter is in the living room trying to convince Doc that appearances are not what they seem and does not hear her.Christy follows Peter and Doc to the Chandler mansion where the wedding is being held. Doc refuses to be part of the wedding, and a bewildered Christy inadvertently gives the impression that she is Peters girl friend, whom he has abandoned for June. Christys erratic behavior and insistence that Peter has inherited a fortune in pesos convince everyone that she is unbalanced. The wedding is called off until Peter can clear himself by driving Christy to Docs clinic in La Jolla to confirm her instability. During the trip, fog rolls in and Peter drives off the highway onto a beach, where he loses the car keys. The wet and weary couple are found by a group of Mexican railroad workers, who, mistaking them for newlyweds, welcome them into their crew car on a nearby siding. After enjoying a night of dancing and drinking tequila with the Mexicans, Peter and Christy go out into the moonlight and kiss. In the morning, Peter apologizes to Christy for making the advances as the car is being towed to La Jolla. ........

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