It is summertime 1903. The Ian Smith household lead a comfy upper-middle category life. Alonzo Ian Smith (Leon Ames) and his married woman Anna (Virgin Mary Nancy Witcher Astor) have got four daughter: rosebush (Lucille Bremer), Esther, Agnes, and Tootie; and a son, Lon Jr. (H H. Daniel, Jr.) Esther, the 2nd firstborn girl (Judy Judy Garland), is in love with the boy following door, toilet Truett (Tom Francis Drake), although he make not detect her at first. rosebush is expect a telephone phone call in which she hope to be propose to by Robert Penn Warren Sheffield (Henry M. Robert Thomas Sully).