User:Roserock99/Three Blind Mice (1938 film)

Plot
The Charters sisters, Pamela (Loretta Young), Elizabeth (Pauline Moore), and Moira (Marjorie Weaver), long to leave their chicken farm and become rich. They inherit a sum of about $5000 from their aunt and venture to California so that Pamela might find a rich husband. While checking in at the hotel, they meet Steve Harrington (David Niven), who is smitten with Pamela. She thinks he is a gold-digger and rejects him. Elizabeth is posing as Pamela’s secretary and Moira is her maid. They meet Mike (Stuart Erwin), the hotel’s bartender who tells them about two unmarried rich young men: Steve Harrington and Van Dam Smith (Joel McCrea). The next day, Pamela causes a boat accident that causes Steve to fall into the water. She thinks he is drowning and jumps in to save him, but it turns out he was just trying to take off his boots. The whole thing is observed by Van Dam Smith, who also becomes smitten with Pamela. Meanwhile, the girls are running out of money, so Pamela tells Moira to ask Mike for $100. Both Steve and Van Dam court Pamela, but she has fallen for Van Dam, so she asks Elizabeth to keep Steve distracted. Pamela confesses to Van Dam that she is broke but that she has fallen in love with him. Van Dam informs her that he is in deep debt and came to California looking for a rich wife. He insists that Pamela should be with Steve. Pamela goes back to her room crying, and as her sisters comfort her, Steve arrives to propose. Pamela accepts. When she tells Moira that she is engaged, Mike overhears and gets upset. He threatens to tell Steve everything, so the sisters lock him in a bathroom. The following day, they go with Steve to his ranch (Steve still doesn’t know that they are sisters). They meet Steve’s sister Miriam (Binnie Barnes), who insists that they go to a nightclub in celebration. At the nightclub, Miriam meets Van Dam and brings him over to the table to introduce him to Pamela and Steve, whom he already knows. Miriam insists that Van Dam come stay at the ranch and be the best man at the wedding. Meanwhile, Mike has followed the sisters and is hired by Miriam to be her personal bartender. The sisters corner him and he tells Pamela that as long as she is good to Steve, he won’t say anything. He also says that he loves Moira. Steve finds Elizabeth at the chicken coop and discovers that she is very knowledgeable about chickens. He begins to fall for her. Miriam hosts a big barbecue to celebrate the wedding, at which it becomes clear that Pamela and Van Dam are in love. That night, he goes to her to call off the wedding. Pamela agrees and when Steve bursts in on them, she confesses everything. Steve is relieved because he is in love with Elizabeth. He goes to propose to her and she runs out of her room screaming that a man with a knife has broken in. She accepts Steve’s proposal and they all go into Elizabeth’s room to see what happened. They find Mike hiding under the bed with flowers in hand. He thought he was climbing into Moira’s room. He divulges that he and Moira eloped the day before. Now each of the sisters has a happy ending.