Ann is being given presents by one of her acting class colleagues, Hobart Niles. She and Donald think that these gifts are hot, but they find out that Hobart is very wealthy.

Donald, the proud owner of an unpublished novel, needs cheering when he gets his twelfth rejection slip. Ann's father makes connections with a publisher for Don's book, but he reads it himself and refuses to send it in.

When Ann sprains her ankle at work, Donald comes to the rescue cooking gourmet meals and cleaning her apartment with a vengeance.

Ann takes boyfriend Donald home to spend the weekend with her parents, only to find that her father is jealous of Don and sees him as a rival.

Lou escorts Ethel Merman just to be nice, and the publicity thinks that they are an item much to Helen's dismay.

Mrs. Hollister stays at Ann's apartment and finds a pair of her son's pants hanging in Ann's closet.

Ann is pressured to hire unscrupulous press agent Eddie Edwards who promptly links her to a divorce scandal with actor Buddy Hobart in the hopes that it will boost Ann's career.

Ann dislikes Donald's new beard and takes measures to get him to shave it off.

Ann meets an elderly man, Andrew Washington at a party when he accidentally spills his shrimp cocktail on her new white crepe dress. He tries to make it up to her by giving her gifts, but Ann cannot accept them.

Ann befriends an African-American boy after saving him from a shoplifting charge. When he tells her he lives on Park Avenue, she does not believe him, so he invents a story of 13 brothers and sisters, fat rats, life in a dirty tenament, and a father who beats him. Appalled, Ann goes so far as to decide to adopt him! The boy then calls his father, who happened to be wealthy like he said earlier.