Wealthy bachelor Jimmy Norton, soon to be married to a gold digger, lies his way out of a speeding ticket by claiming to be on his way to visit his daughter at the Children's Hospital. The policeman gives him an escort to the hospital. Here runaway orphan Pudge attaches herself to Jimmy, the sort of daddy she has always dreamed of having. In order to keep up the lie, Jimmy must pretend that Pudge is his daughter while hiding her from his fiancée.