 Since she was a child, Natalie Miller (Patty Duke, in a Golden Globe winning performance) has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother s encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady (Elsa Lanchester) and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David (James Farentino) an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married. Al Pacino makes his first screen appearance in a minor role.