The songs included "No Strings," "Isn"t This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)," "Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails," "Cheek to Cheek," and "The Piccolino.The film, similar in many ways oHigh Noon (1952), even concludes with the inevitable Western-style final showdown.It concerns your jewels...They are here.Your jewels here in Paris...This morning, hree Soviet agents arrived.I overheard a telephone conversation with Mercier the jeweler.Your Highness, they are going to sell hem.Incensed but unable to purchase the jewels herself, he Duchess immediately calls her lawyer Mr.Cornillon, and demands a court injunction to get her jewels back, but the lawyer doesn"t offer her much hope: "There may be a chance, that"s all.He was put through a series of challenges: financial, social, and emotional.The film was quickly made by director Vincente Minnelli while he was preparing production for his next film:An American in Paris (1951).