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Soon, Chris becomes enamored of her because his loveless marriage is tormented by his shrewish wife Adele ( Rosalind Ivan ), who idolizes her former husband, a policeman drowned while trying to save a woman.

After Chris confesses that he is married, Johnny convinces Kitty to pursue a relationship in order to extort money from Chris.

Kitty inveigles him to rent an apartment for her, one that can also be his art studio.

To finance an apartment, Chris steals $ 500 from his employer.

Meanwhile, Johnny unsuccessfully tries selling some of Chris's paintings, attracting the interest of art critic David Janeway.

Kitty is maneuvered by Johnny into pretending that she painted them, charming the critic with Chris's own descriptions of his art, and Janeway promises to represent her.

Adele sees her husband's paintings in the window of a commercial art gallery as the work of " Katherine March " and accuses him of copying her work.

Chris confronts Kitty, who claims she sold them because she needed the money.

He is so delighted that his paintings are appreciated, albeit only under Kitty's signature, that he happily lets her become the public face of his art.

She becomes a huge commercial success, although Chris never receives any of the money.