Easy to Wed

Financier J. B. Allenbury wants to sue The Morning Star for libel after a story claims Connie caused a marriage breakup. The newspaper fears financial ruin and editor Curtis Farwood enlists Warren Haggerty to craft a counter-strategy. The plan centers on manipulating a situation that could be used as proof against the libel claim.

Warren postpones his marriage to Gladys Benton to help Farwood with the plan. He agrees to gamble his personal life to save the newspaper and his employer's ambitions.

The scheme hinges on making reporter Bill Chandler marry Gladys so she can sue Connie for alienation of affection if a photo surfaces. The plan would allegedly show the Morning Star story was not libelous by creating a compromising image. The success depends on Bill ingratiating himself with the Allenburys.

To obtain the damaging photograph, Bill must ingratiate himself with the Allenburys, who are vacationing at the Hotel Del Rey in Mexico. He travels south with Spike Dolan and adopts the persona of a hunting-enthusiast writer favored by J.B. Allenbury. The aim is to get close enough to Connie to capture the needed image.

Bill introduces himself to the Allenburys as a writer who enjoys hunting, aligning with J.B.'s favorite hobby. Spike Dolan assists him as they work the resort to get close to Connie and her father. The elusive photograph remains out of reach as the days pass.

As time passes with no photo, Warren and Gladys grow impatient. Warren suspects Bill may be getting romantically involved with Connie, which would ruin the plan. The pressure to push forward intensifies.

Warren travels to Mexico to try to persuade Connie and J.B. to drop the lawsuit, but they refuse to cooperate. He realizes the plan is more fragile than expected while the stakes rise.

Gladys arrives at the resort and tells J.B. that she is married to Bill, deepening the ruse. The revelation forces Connie and her father to reassess the situation and increases tension.

Connie decides to prove J.B.'s claim false by demanding that Bill marry her immediately. They are wed by a justice of the peace, turning the plan into a seemingly real marriage.

When Warren and Gladys threaten to expose Bill as a bigamist, Bill counters by revealing that Gladys' mail-order divorce is not legally binding. This injects legal doubt into the ruse and heightens the suspense.

Gladys reveals that she obtained a second Reno divorce that is legally valid. The revelation undermines the bigamy claim and vindicates the deception as part of the scheme.

With the legal obstacle cleared, the Allenburys agree to drop their lawsuit. Warren and Gladys realize they are meant to be together, deciding their future after the tangled plot resolves.