Based on a story by Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner, the film is about a girl at an exclusive boarding school who invents an exciting father.

On her manager's advice, she has concealed from the press the fact that she's a widow with a fourteen-year-old daughter, Gloria (Deanna Durbin).

Gloria never sees her mother and never knew her father, who died when she was just a baby; he was a navy pilot during wartime.

She goes to the train station to meet her "father" and the man she picks at random is Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall), an English composer on holiday, accompanied by Tripps (Arthur Treacher), his valet/secretary.

Mother and daughter are tearfully reunited and Gwen is grateful to Richard for bringing Gloria back to her.

[5] [6] The producer was Joe Pasternak; Henry Koster, who had directed Durbin's first two films, went on to The Rage of Paris.