In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.

Deanna Durbin
as Ilonka Tolnay

Robert Cummings
as Corporal Harry Marten

Mischa Auer
as Gustav

Henry Stephenson
as Emperor Franz Joseph

S.Z. Sakall
as Latislav Teschek - the Baker

Walter Catlett
as Headwaiter

Anne Gwynne
as Jenny

Peggy Moran
as Archduchess Irene

Reginald Denny
as The Major

Kenneth Brown
as Moritz
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Deanna Durbin signs her heart out here as the Hungarian peasant "Ilonka". She's been told by a fortune teller that happiness is looming - and she reckons that might just have come true when she encounters "Harry" (Robert Cummings) - a drummer in the Imperial army. Meantime, though, he is fond of wri...