An American sweetheart from Hollywood and former Miss Pittsburgh marries a failing Jewish comic stricken with agoraphobia. Shirley Jones, singing star of "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel" and Oscar-winner for "Elmer Gantry," was the mother of three sons when her husband, alcoholic actor Jack Cassidy, left her in the middle 1970's. Jack had a new girl--and problems facing up to Shirley's success and teen-age son David's big earnings as a rock idol. Stand-up comic Marty Ingels, on a downslide after a failed TV sitcom, followed by an on-camera nervous breakdown on The Tonight Show, began pursuing her, slyly moved into her apartment shirt by shirt, and captured her. Then came the day when Shirley could not explain Marty's presence in her apartment to a plumber; Marty said it was time to marry--and they did. Marty's phobia turned out to be correctable. Cured, Marty discovered a new skill and set himself up as a talent broker for TV spots, and thus Ingels, Inc. was born. This unconventional dual bio has many wacky moments as Marty reels under the influence of his illness, and never a dull page.