Irma La Douce is small scale and French, piquant and jauntya musical in which everything turns on sex and money and promptly turns into sentiment and make-believe. A prostitute in a dregsy quarter of Paris, Irma gives her love and earnings to a virtuous young law student named Nestor. Growing jealous of her clients, Nestorusing earnings of his own, and a false beard and spectaclesbecomes Irma's one-man provider, "M. Oscar." Irma thereupon falls in love with Oscar; Nestor "kills" him, is sent to Devil's Island, and escapes so as to be back in Paris in time for Christmas and Irma's gift...
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