[2][3] The film's screenplay is by John Twist, and it stars Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Frances Langford, Desi Arnaz and Hal Le Roy.

Tycoon Harvey Casey (Harry Shannon) is frustrated by his daughter Connie's (Lucille Ball) frequent efforts to escape her hired bodyguards.

She arrives back in the United States from finishing school in Italy, intent on going to Harvey's alma mater Pottawatomie College in Stop Gap, New Mexico.

After meeting Princeton football star Clint Kelly (Richard Carlson), Casey wants to hire him and his fellow players – Jojo Jordan (Eddie Bracken), Manuelito Lynch (Desi Arnaz), and Al Terwilliger (Hal Le Roy) – to discreetly serve as Connie's bodyguards at Pottawatomie.

Clint discovers Connie only came to Pottawatomie to chase her latest beau, British playwright Beverly Waverly (Douglas Walton).

Songs that were used in the stage musical and not used in the film were "Tempt Me Not", "My Prince", "I Like to Recognize the Tune", "The Sweethearts of the Team", "She Could Shake the Maracas", "Too Many Girls", and "Give it Back to the Indians".

[8] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that Too Many Girls was a "pleasant, light-hearted and wholly ingenuous campus film" but that director George Abbott "permitted it to sag in the middle, at which point the thin spots baldly show."