Naive girl Colleen Miller from Nebraska comes to New York City to make her mark as a model. Moves in with old friend Shelly Winters and starts meeting "the right people" very quickly. Too quickly.
Nobody in this film is really a "good guy," or girl. Everyone has their own self-interest at heart. Gregg Palmer as Tom Bradley, the upstairs neighbor of Shelly Winters, comes the closest to good guy status. Winters is a nightclub singer (and she sings great) in an affair with a married glamour magazine publisher, Barry Sullivan, who is leading her on about leaving his wife. Richard Long is a young "playboy" hanger on who owes too much money to the wrong people and ends up being the precipitator of a lot of the chaos that ensues.
Miller gets a fast "career" as a top model for the glamour magazine overnight, and Winters gets jealous fast. Borrowing Long's car and gun, she threatens Sullivan and accidentally kills him. Winters and Miller end up in the big scandal that ruins both their careers, while Long trying to get out of his money trouble gets them involved in a gangland hit on top of everything else.
There is sort of a happy ending but not before we lose Sullivan, and everybody else (except maybe Long) learns their lesson. New York "society" is a tough place in the 1950s and a naive girl from Nebraska better beware of a life that seems too good to be true, because it is.
Nobody in this film is really a "good guy," or girl. Everyone has their own self-interest at heart. Gregg Palmer as Tom Bradley, the upstairs neighbor of Shelly Winters, comes the closest to good guy status. Winters is a nightclub singer (and she sings great) in an affair with a married glamour magazine publisher, Barry Sullivan, who is leading her on about leaving his wife. Richard Long is a young "playboy" hanger on who owes too much money to the wrong people and ends up being the precipitator of a lot of the chaos that ensues.
Miller gets a fast "career" as a top model for the glamour magazine overnight, and Winters gets jealous fast. Borrowing Long's car and gun, she threatens Sullivan and accidentally kills him. Winters and Miller end up in the big scandal that ruins both their careers, while Long trying to get out of his money trouble gets them involved in a gangland hit on top of everything else.
There is sort of a happy ending but not before we lose Sullivan, and everybody else (except maybe Long) learns their lesson. New York "society" is a tough place in the 1950s and a naive girl from Nebraska better beware of a life that seems too good to be true, because it is.