The Girl from Missouri (originally called Born to Be Kissed) is a 1934 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone.

Eadie lives in Kansas City, working as a waitress-slash-dance partner at a beer joint owned by her abusive stepfather.

She lands a job as one of the chorus girls entertaining guests at a stag party at the mansion of wealthy Frank Cousins.

when she gets him to retrieve the cufflinks from her stocking before the investigating policeman can ask where and how she got them (intimating she’d be accused either of Cousins’ murder or robbing the corpse).

Eventually, she learns his identity, but remains cool to him, since it becomes clear that he is not interested in marriage.

Tom finally manages to get her alone in his bedroom in the Paige mansion, but she defends her virtue and, to both their surprise, he lets her go.

Some photographers catch her in the stranger's arms and the district attorney accuses her of stealing Cousins' jewelry and jails her.

She emerges unexpectedly, clad only in lingerie, and embraces a surprised T.R just as photographers take his picture.

Tom arrives just in time, having changed his mind, and puts Eadie in the shower to sober up.