Défense d'aimer (1942)

Monsieur Gavard ,an authoritarian father,who manages a hotel chain wants his son to marry a wealthy south -American ,but the boy,Maxime , has got a mistress who is not prepared to accept it.So why not an unconsummated marriage to fool the father?No sooner said than done.But you would never guess: the rich kid falls in love with his "wife" ,a manicurist who works in one of dad's hotels in San Marino.And now he sees things differently.