Lucky Parrtners (1940) - Ginger Rogers Ronald Colman

Jean Newton works as a clerk in her Aunt Lucy's Greenwich Village bookstore. As Jean walks down the street on her way to make a delivery of books, a passerby, a complete stranger, says to her, "Good luck." Coming into a windfall of sorts by the end of the delivery having nothing to do directly with the delivery itself, Jean begins to believe that the man that wished her good luck *is* her good luck charm. Tracking him down near the bookstore, she is able to convince him, struggling caricature artist David Grant, to go half with her in a sweepstakes ticket, she in the process mentioning that if they win, she plans to use her half winnings to marry her childhood sweetheart, insurance salesman Freddie Harper, and move with him to Poughkeepsie. Hearing her story and further learning that she and Freddie will not go on a honeymoon in not having the money, David, proposing it as a social experiment but really not wanting to see Jean caught in domesticity for the rest of her life without having experienced some of the world, counters that he will use his half for them to go on a honeymoon, the them being him and her purely traveling platonically as mock brother and sister, and not her and Freddie. Beyond Jean's initial outrage and Freddie's continually inward outrage at David's proposal, that social experiment takes on a life of its own in its twists and turns, the experiment which ends up being more complicated due to David's hidden background which is the reason he made the proposal.