Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
Joe E. Brown
as Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones
Helen Mack
as Jane Hamilton / Princess Helen
Paul Kelly
as Briggs
Harry Davenport
as Archduke Julio
Halliwell Hobbes
as Count Strunsky
John Qualen
as Otto
Donald Briggs
as Prince Michael
Robert Warwick
as Prime Minister
Frank Reicher
as Kurtz
Russell Hicks
as Editor Hardwick
Charles Trowbridge
as Mr. Marshall