
Aspiring actress Ann Marie moves to New York and works at a series of temp jobs while waiting for her big break in show business, while her overprotective father, Lou, looks on nervously. Although she is focused on her career, Ann also finds time to fall for magazine executive Donald Hollinger, to whom she eventually becomes engaged. Her friends include two married couples, the Bessemers and the Baumans. Harvey and George are her agents.

Ann lands a job as a dancing chicken for a restaurant; after an altercation with her boss, she finds herself stuck in her costume on a country road.

A hypnotic suggestion sends Ann on a buying spree.

Ann almost ruins a surprise birthday party Don has arranged for her.

Lou Marie's grilling of Don about his future plans for Ann leads to a spat between the couple.