Bett, a Broadway actress, was scammed out of all of her money by her former manager. She sees a casting call for Girl in a Dark Room, a play with painful memories for her, but being broke and desperate for work, she decides to audition. The screenwriter for this play, Edward McCullough, was Bettâs first love and the man who abandoned her for fame and more experienced women. When they reunite six years later, she pretends to be a woman whoâs willing to use a man with talent and fortuneâshe doesnât want him to know that sheâs still a virginâĻor that sheâs still hopelessly in love with himâĻ