[4] In 1930's London, Elizabeth, an aspiring singer, quits her menial job in a posh luxury fashion shop.

At a nightclub after the show Victor attempts to charm Princess Miranoff with Shakespeare recitations as Robert has a manly chat with 'Bill'.

Elizabeth is forced to smoke a cigar and drink large whiskeys as she attempts to maintain the pretence that she is a man.

She and Robert invite their new friends to travel with them to the South of France with the intention of tricking 'Bill' into revealing his true gender.

Princess Miranoff pledges to fund Victor in Shakespearean theater, and despite Elizabeth having a man's passport, she is waved across the French border to begin her new life with Robert.

A huge success at the time it was released, First a Girl is possibly the quintessential Jessie Matthews musical and certainly the most enduringly amusing for a modern audience.