To Be a Lady

To Be a Lady is a 1934 British romance drama, directed and produced by George King, and starring Chili Bouchier credited here as Dorothy Bouchier and Bruce Lester. The film is the first screen editing credit of American film editor Elmo Williams.

One day Diana spots a kitten in danger on a busy road, and dashes into the traffic to rescue it. Her kind action is witnessed by singer Jerry Dean Lester, who strikes up a conversation and invites her for lunch the next day at the Ritz Hotel. Diana is worried that has nothing suitable to wear to such a rarefied establishment, but is delighted when Annette produces a beautiful dress which she offers to loan to her. Unknown to Diana however, the dress has been stolen by a maid friend of Annettes from her wealthy employer, and passed to Annette for safekeeping before it is sold to a dealer.Diana and Jerry meet for their Ritz rendezvous. Unfortunately, also present is the Countess Delavell Vera Bogetti lunching with her theatrical friend Dudley Chalfont Charles Cullum, and it is the Countess stolen dress which Diana is wearing. At the end of the meeting Jerry, explaining that he has to leave to fulfil engagements in Scotland, proposes to Diana and she accepts. Meanwhile the Countess maid, aware that she is already under suspicion, steals some valuable jewellery, alerts Annette and the pair take off for France. ........

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