Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to realize her past ambitions for fame and fortune through her daughter Kay, whom she persuades to enter a local beauty contest. Kay wins and is interviewed by reporter Gil McRoberts, who advises her to get married and settle down. Jeffrey is very upset with his wife's and daughter's passion for beauty contests and, when Kay enters the national contest, he informs Marian that she must choose between him and her chase after empty honors for Kay.
Desentendimentos românticas abundam quando os cônjuges suspeitam um do outro e uma cantora de boate vai num cruzeiro sob identidade falsa. A socialite Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) desconfia de seu marido Michael Kent (Don DeFore) está paquerando outras mulheres. Quando ele anuncia que não pode acompanhá-la em sua programada viagem de cruzeiro, ela contrata a cantora de boate Georgia Garrett (Doris Day), para fingir ser ela no cruzeiro. Elvira fica em um hotel perto de casa para que possa espionar seu marido. No entanto ela não sabe que seu marido contratou um detetive, Peter Virgil (Jack Carson), para ficar de olho nela no mar. Claro que Peter não percebe que a Geórgia não é a Sra. Kent e aí...
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...