A shy, naive New York children's librarian must become stronger and wiser after she discovers that her new husband is a liar, a cheat, and a fraud.
Plot keywords (from IMDb): apartment, atlantic city new jersey, bartender, based on play, beat cop, big band music, blind date, braggart, caught kissing, child librarian, chinese restaurant, chop suey, christmas, con man, couple argues, craps game, dance floor fight, dance hall, dance orchestra, dancehall, dancehall girl, death of mother, deception, depression era, dice game, disillusionment, domestic drama, double date, drunkenness, emotional depression, fistfight, fortune hunter, gambling, honeymoon, hotel, hudson river new york, husband, innocence, irresponsibility, landlady, librarian, library, library book, loneliness, marital infidelity, marital reconciliation, marriage, messenger boy, moral transformation, naivete, new york city, newlywed, newsboy, pawn shop, pool hall, pre code film, pregnancy, pregnant woman, prohibition era, public library, reading aloud, reference to jack and the beanstalk, reference to peter pan, reference to rapunzel, reference to the old lady and the shoe, reference to wall street, river cruise, shyness, slang, speakeasy, storytelling, stutter, stutterer, stuttering man, suicide attempt, taxi dancer, theme song, title cowritten by female, train, train trip, unemployment, unfaithful husband, wall street trader, wife kicks husband out of the house, reference to aphrodite the greek deity