Million Dollar Baby is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Ronald Reagan, May Robson and Lee Patrick.

When wealthy American expatriate Cornelia Wheelwright is informed by her longtime lawyers that her late father swindled his partner, Fortune McCallister, out of $700,000, she acts decisively.

Pam works in Lacey's Department Store and lives in a boardinghouse in New York City.

Cornelia also meets Pam's boyfriend, composer and piano player Pete Rowan (Reagan).

Pam is excited at first, buying gifts for her boardinghouse friends, and her boyfriend, who lives across the hall from her.