Willie spends the first year of World War II playing the piano in cocktail lounges, enjoying his high draft number. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Willie thinks about joining the Navy. He falls in love with May Wynn, an attractive singer who auditions at the lounge where Willie plays. The owner offers May a job. Willie takes her to dinner and learns her real name is Marie Minotti. Willie asks her to marry him. She declines. She does not have a telephone.....
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