Best-selling novelist and ladies' man Owen Waterbury (Kirk Douglas) expects his new secretary, Stephanie (Laraine Day), to be his next conquest. But Stephanie -- an aspiring writer -- has other plans, and isn't happy to discover that her new boss would rather play than work. Things quickly get heated between the two opposites -- and it's clear that Waterbury's going to have to change his ways if he wants to win over the literary lady.