When Mr. Bookman, a sidewalk salesman gets visited by the angel of death, informing him that he will be dying at midnight that night, he convinces the angel that he has one big pitch to make before he dies. The angel agrees to a delay, but instead causes a neighbor's daughterto have an accident and "Mr. Death" comes to take her. Mr. Bookman realizes he has to make the pitch of his life.

An aging, forgotten movie star from the 1930's longs to go back in time to her heyday, despite the pleas from her manager. However, his attempts to get her to live in the present backfires when he brings an old co-star by for a visit when she is shocked to discover how much he has aged over the years.