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Landis) commands her to dance with the tutor to make the prince jealous. The princess is aghast. "I would have sent for a duke from Vienna," her mother apologizes, "but there was no time . . . You'll wear gloves, of course, darling—long ones." Even with gloves, the tutor is too hot to handle. He sets the princess on fire, and by the time the blaze is finally under control, the rest of the flimsy plot has gone pleasantly up in smoke.
In the scenes of first love, Actress Kelly is exquisite. She kisses her man as though she had invented kisses just for him. Louis Jourdan partners her with easy skill, but Alec Guinness is the man to watch-especially when he goes to bed tied up in a mustache binder. The whole cast gets plenty of help from Director Charles Vidor, who has kept the color warm, the lighting kind, and everything moving in waltz time. But Vidor got plenty of help from the man who wrote lines such as the one that Aunt Symphorosa (Estelle Winwood) once squeaks in horror. "She's going to the Black Sea," she cries, "without any breakfast."