Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

Plot: 1938. Based in Vienna, Austrian Baron Franz Von Luber and old money Philadelphia socialite Katherine Butt-Smith (Butt pronounced Bute) get married in Prague, before heading off on an around the continent honeymoon. American radio broadcaster Patrick O'Toole, also currently based in Vienna as a correspondent, is assigned by his boss Ed Cumberland to discover the truth about Von Luber, who Ed is certain is not only a Nazi sympathizer, but is strategically placed within Adolf Hitler's regime. Indeed, the honeymoon is only a guise for Von Luber to pave the way in those locations where he and the Baroness will be traveling like Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway and France for the Nazis to overtake those countries. Unable to get to Von Luber directly, Pat decides to get his story through the Baroness instead. In meeting the Baroness, Pat is amazed by her resemblance to a burlesque queen he saw perform in Brooklyn named Kathie O'Hara. Indeed, the Baroness is said Kathie O'Hara, a social climber trying to put her burlesque life behind her. In falling for the Baroness, Pat tries to rescue her from her marriage to Von Luber, she who begins to believe the stories about her husband. In Kathie too falling for Pat, they have decide how best to save themselves for that happily ever after against what good they can be in thwarting Von Luber's plans.

Alternative Plot: In the beginning stages of World War II, burlesque dancer Katherine O'Hara (Ginger Rogers) ignores the effects of the war and focuses on climbing the social ladder. When she marries the influential Baron Franz Von Luber (Walter Slezak), Katherine seemingly has it made, but Von Luber might not be the man she thinks. Already suspecting Von Luber's ties to Nazism, foreign correspondent Patrick O'Toole (Cary Grant) must convince Katherine to turn spy on her husband to help the Allies' war effort.

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