Maggie Garret (Irene Dunne) is a successful Broadway singer whose freeloading family–dad (Guy Kibbee), mom (Alice Brady), and kid sister (Lucille Ball) –has taken away both her happiness as well as her money. Into the repressed star’s life enters the raffish young millionaire Daniel Brewster (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), who rescues her from autograph seekers but his good intentions of whisking her away to his car is misunderstood and results in his arrest. But things get straightened out and Brewster teaches her how to act silly and laugh again by getting her into the joys of loving (such as dining out with him in a cosy inexpensive neighborhood cafe, going with him to a public skating rink, and drinking with him in a German beer hall). It’s worth mentioning that this Brewster guy who is preaching for her to quit work and abandon her greedy family, is a wealthy Boston shipowner who runs a small cargo business and dwells in a South Sea island called Paradise. How easy it is to drop out when you have wealth seems never to have occurred to the filmmaker.