After marrying while drunk, a cartoonist puts his murderous fantasies into his work.

Wealthy bachelor cartoonist Stanley Ford lives in a New York City apartment, his unmarried bliss protected by his English valet, Charles. After getting drunk at a stag party, however, Stanley awakens the following morning to find himself married to the girl who popped out of a cake at the party. She is an Italian who speaks little English and who was stranded in the United States after coming here to participate in a beauty contest. Stanley tries to get the marriage annulled, but Harold, his attorney, who has always wanted Stanley to wed and settle down, advises him that annulment and divorce are impossible. Mrs. Ford's "feminization" of his home and daily routine drives Stanley to distraction. Having always tried out his comic-strip situations in real life before committing them to paper, Stanley drops a dummy dressed as his wife into a foundation form at a building site; and tons of concrete are poured over the dummy. He makes this incident part of a wife-murder in his comic strip, and when Mrs. Ford sees it on his drawing board she panics and flees. Realizing at last that he loves and misses his wife, Stanley notifies the police of her disappearance; but workmen at the building site see Stanley's comic-strip account of the wife-murder and likewise notify the police. Stanley is arrested and charged with murdering his wife as depicted in the strip. At his trial Stanley delivers a tirade against marriage to the all-married male jury, convincing them that they all have wife-murder in the back of their minds, and he is acquitted. To his surprise, Mrs. Ford returns to him.