The film stars Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple in a story about a teenager's crush on an older man.

Susan is an intelligent 17-year-old high-school student with a habit of forming short-lived enthusiasms after hearing the regular guest lectures at school.

Richard Nugent, a handsome and sophisticated artist, is a defendant in Margaret's courtroom, charged by assistant district attorney Tommy Chamberlain with starting a nightclub brawl.

Richard assaults Tommy and is held in jail until Matt Beemish, the court psychiatrist and also Margaret and Susan's uncle, intervenes and explains the situation.

Uncle Matt takes Susan in hand and makes her realise that she is only infatuated with Richard and he is too old for her so she returns to Jerry, who is being drafted into uniform.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called the film "most agreeable" and praised the four principal performers, the direction and screenplay.

The script was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the May 10, 1948 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple.