"Happy" Jimmy Smith of the fashionable North Shore is experiencing financial difficulties due to his tight fisted wife Susan and his philandering ways. Jimmy's latest problem is Sonya from Syracuse, who is demanding the money he promised her for her acting career. When Jimmy's old friend, theatrical producer William Trainor, announces that he is casting a new show, Jimmy's niece Nanette finagles a way to rid her uncle of Sonya. Nanette cajoles Bill into putting the would-be actress in his show, and in the process, Bill falls in love with Nanette. Next, under threat of Betty from Bridgeport, the family flees to New York, where Jimmy encounters Kitty from Kansas, to whom he has promised an artistic career. Once again pressed into the service of her uncle, Nanette calls upon artist Tom Gillespie and convinces him to teach Kitty the art trade and Tom, like Bill, also falls in love with Nanette. Jimmy is relieved until Betty from Bridgeport appears and demands five thousand dollars. To raise the money, Nanette sells the portrait that Tom has painted of her to a cigarette company, an act which angers and disappoints Tom, who had planned to exhibit his masterpiece in art galleries and thus break out of the commercial art market. On the rebound, Nanette goes out with Bill, who convinces her to meet him at the airport that night so they can elope to Nevada. Meanwhile, Susan, who has discovered her husband's extracurricular activities, also boards the plane bound for Nevada and a divorce, and Jimmy, headed for the Virgin Islands, books passage on the same flight. All ends happily when, as the plane is airbound, Jimmy and Susan tearfully reconcile and Nanette discovers that Bill has brought Tom aboard to marry her.