The Beautiful Cheat is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton and written by Ben Markson and Elwood Ullman.

The film stars Bonita Granville, Noah Beery Jr., Margaret Irving, Sarah Selby, Irene Ryan, Carol Hughes and Tom Dillon.

[1][2][3] A sociologist sends his friend, a psychologist, to a local detention center to obtain a delinquent teenager for the sociologist to study for a book he is writing.

When the psychologist is unable to get a teenager released to his custody, he convinces a secretary to pose as one.

The fake delinquent causes chaos in the sociologist's life and home.