The Devil and Miss Jones

“For folks who haven't laughed since 1929!”

John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the richest man in the world, wants to find the troublemakers at his Manhattan department store, where angry employees have hung him in effigy without ever having seen his face. Sam Wood sends him in as Thomas Higgins, a new clerk in the shoe department, working beside Mary Jones (Jean Arthur) and Joe O'Brien (Robert Cummings). He meant to spend a few days spying on strangers, and he starts getting pulled into their lives.