Rick Belrow Livingston (Farley Granger), in love with self-obsessed Broadway star Lisa (Ann Miller), is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. Quite by accident, he meets the daughter of the judge, Cindy Kimbell (Jane Powell). He persuades her to let him out for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on the premise he is seeing his "poor sick mother" (Billie Burke) on her birthday. After tracking him down and bringing him back to town, Cindy starts to fall for Livingston, but Dr. Schlemmer (S. Z. Sakall) wants her to marry his son (Bobby Van) even though he desperately wants a career on Broadway. Directed by László Kardos Produced by Joe Pasternak Written by Dorothy Cooper (story and screenplay) Dorothy Kingsley (screenplay) Starring Jane Powell Farley Granger Ann Miller Music by Nicholas Brodszky André Previn Albert Sendrey Cinematography Joseph Ruttenberg Edited by Albert Akst Jane Powell as Cindy Kimbell Farley Granger as Rick Belrow Livingston Ann Miller as Lisa Bellmount S. Z. Sakall as "Papa" Eric Schlemmer Robert Keith as Judge Gordon Kimbell Bobby Van as Ludwig Schlemmer Billie Burke as Mrs. Livingston Fay Wray as Mrs. Gordon Kimbell Nat King Cole as himself Dean Miller as Mac William Campbell as Ted