Lady for a Day

Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.

• judge
• parent child relationship
• superstition
• transformation
• letter
• count
• deception
• makeover
• old lady
• pre-code
• nightclub singer
• pool shark
• racketeer
• engaged couple
• mother daughter reunion
• panhandle
• social reception
• elaborate ruse
• apple vendor