Accompanied by his beautiful but colossally ignorant mistress, Billie Dawn (Judy Holliday), the bullying and crooked junk tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) arrives in Washington D.C. to manipulate a huge international business deal. Afraid that Billie's lack of social graces will wreck his plans, Brock hires writer Paul Verrall (William Holden) to educate her. Yet, as Paul helps change...