The Love Merchant

Newlywed Peg Johns meets millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III through ex-school friend Bobbi Hill, a Greenwich Village painter. Kendall is introduced to Peg by Bobbi's lover Click Boyd, a pimp. Immediately attracted to Peg, Kendall offers to help the Johns when Peg's husband Roger, an advertising executive, faces financial ruin. Kendall's plan is to help land a lucrative account for Roger in exchange for having Peg stay with him for a few days. Peg consents when she notices that her husband has begun to drink heavily. She is appalled when during her stay at Kendall's she is forced to join in an orgy. Unable to shoulder the guilt, Peg confesses to her husband, who becomes angry and leaves her. Peg's opinion of Kendall changes when he declares that he has fallen in love with her, but when she arrives at Kendall's apartment, she finds him with a prostitute.