"IT'S GAY! GRAND! GLORIOUS!"
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Marion Davies
Betsy Patterson
Dick Powell
Jerome Bonaparte
Claude Rains
Napoleon Bonaparte
Beulah Bondi
Mother of Napoleon and Jerome
Henry Stephenson
Charles Patterson
Clara Blandick
Aunt Ellen
Charles Ruggles
Henry
Edward Everett Horton
John
Arthur Treacher
Sir Harry
George Irving
Thomas Jefferson
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