Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Angela, a beautiful and high spirited girl, has found her true love at last in the dashing Harrison, heir to a department store fortune. But Angela, who is a shop-girl at the store, must contend with Harrison's mother, owner of the chain. If Harrison defies his mother and continues his passionate alliance with Angela, he threatens to lose a life of wealth. But if he obeys his domineering mother, he may lose the only true love of his life.