Ann's five years of being an independent woman actress begins when she meets Donald Hollinger, a magazine reporter, in one of her in-between jobs as a candy clerk. She gets a job in a perfume commercial where she plays a woman who gets kidnapped by two robbers. Donald happens to see the act and thinks that Ann is in real trouble, so he saves her only to get serious flack from her. But with that incident aside, Ann and Donald find out that they really belong together.

Ann purchases tickets for the Baumans from a scalper. Giving the scalper a check with her address on it and saying the tickets are for her neighbors, she fears they may be robbed (on Christmas Eve). In order to prevent a robbery, Ann and Donald remove all the valuables from the Baumans' apartment, only to be caught by the police.

Lou gets bitten by a dog that follows Ann home and he thinks that he has caught rabies.

Ann gets a job as a dancing chicken for a fried chicken chain. The boss keeps trying to ""pluck"" her in his car, but Ann gets out of her car and gets stranded.

Uncle Herbert is turning Ann and Donald's world upside down when he makes bogus get-rich-quick schemes.