An out-of-work singer， Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews)， meets a just-fired， flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub， but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago， King Marchan (Michael Nouri) falls in-love with h...