Turn of the century Yonkers and New York City. Dolly Levi in a wheeler-dealer matchmaker who admits up front that she's tired and out to marry for money. Horace Vandergelder is Yonker's most successful merchant, the object of her attraction, but she doesn't let him know it until he's come to New York and humiliated himself chasing a younger woman. Vandergelder's daughter has also meet a charming young man who is taken with her. She loves him deeply, but her father would never agree to their marriage. Meanwhile, Vandergelder's two clerks, Cornelius and Barneby, sneak off to New York, meet and fall in love with milliner Irene and her assistant Minnie, and lead the women to believe they have money. When they discover the men don't, the women don't care, and everyone ends up happy in the end. Synopsis (c) Peter Filichia