 An American dancer, Jerry Travers (Fred Astaire) comes to London to star in a show produced by the bumbling Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton).While practicing a tap dance routine in his hotel bedroom, he awakens Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) on the floor below.She storms upstairs to complain, whereupon Jerry falls hopelessly in love with her and proceeds to pursue her all over London.