Mrs. Oliver Jordan has been busy for a week, planning her dinner in honor of Lord and Lady Ferncliffe. She has hired an orchestra and extra servants, and has gone out of her way to make sure that even the side dishes for the meal will be memorable. What Mrs. Jordan doesn't know is that her fashionable dinner party is destined to be memorable--as a disaster. Based on a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.