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It’s a presidential election year: bachelor presidential candidate John P. Wintergreen – who “hopes to run a good clean campaign without any mention of an issue” – is set up by his handlers to run on the “love” platform; Wintergreen will propose to the winner of a nationwide beauty contest and marry her if he wins the White House. Unfortunately, Wintergreen spurns the piquant Southern bombshell, Diana Devereaux, who wins the contest for the no-nonsense contest organizer, Mary Turner. Once the Wintergreens are married and successfully ensconced in the White House, Devereaux turns all her considerable powers to suing the new president for “breach of promise.” Complications for the president and First Lady, as the saying goes, ensue, until love triumphs in the end.

Authors

• George Gershwin
• George S. Kaufman
• Ira Gershwin
• Morrie Ryskind