An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.
In a New York advertising agency, Jerry Webster, a Madison Avenue ad executive, has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence but by wining and dining his clients, even setting them up on dates with attractive girls.
Hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband.