While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process.

It was adapted from the 1926 novel Dry Martini: a Gentleman Turns to Love by John Thomas.

[3][4][5] Wealthy divorced American Willoughby Quimby has been living in Paris, France for ten years when he learns his adult daughter Elizabeth is coming to visit.

He has been living the high life full of wine and women but decides to forego both during her stay.

Quimby's young pal Freddie Fletcher saves Elizabeth from the clutches of de Launay in the nick of time.