Jimmy Sutton tricky publicist for Consolidated Pictures fetches teacher Trudi Hovland from snowy Minnesota to sunny Hollywood to test for the film of the best-seller "Girl of the North" - having come 436th in a competition several years earlier she is now next choice as leading lady. She gets the part but despite his own growing attraction for her Jimmy deviously manufactures a romance between her and Roger Maxwell a new star who desperately needs to pep-up his image.