"The Boy Friend" is a witty and stylish cartoon of the Jazz Age. The time is roughly 1926. The place is Mme. DuBonnet's fashionable finishing school on the French Riviera.
Polly, a millionaire's daughter, falls in love with Tony, a delivery boy, who naturally turns out to be the son of Lord Brockhurst.
To hold his interest, Polly pretends she's a working girl. Complicating matters are Polly's girlfriends (all boy crazy), Mme. DuBonnet (herself no mean flirt), and Tony's parents who arrive in Nice unknown to all.
A good-humored, tuneful, and affectionate valentine to the innocence and high spirits of the Charleston, cloche hat, and short skirt days of the '20s, "The Boy Friend" is a delightful spoof of the old-fashioned operetta -- all to a flapper beat!