Cornie and Debbie work at a carnival’s dunk tank. One day, an inebriated Texan comes to the booth he and Cornie start drinking. The Texan invites him to a function…
Aubrey Filmore (Red Skelton) is a bumbling bellboy in a Missouri town who pesters the Union officers there; he desperately wants to be a spy for the North in the…
Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who’s been paid by Steve’s agent to say she’s his wife interrupts the ceremony. An angry Caroline gets…
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O’Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated…
Hattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate where they frequently sing and dance Cole Porter numbers. An upper class gentleman arrives and sparks fly between him…
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert’s heroics, they bring him to Hollywood…
Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can’t continue his stage career after an injury for a while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. Perchance he meets composer Harry…
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for…
Parting company with her on-stage partner Professor Orco partly due to the job being potentially hazardous to her health, streetwise but kind-hearted vaudeville performer Maisie Ravier, in Chicago, goes on…
Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn, is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and…
Ambrose C. Park (Red Skelton), left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer…
The operators of ‘Silver Haven’, a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman’s heir also dies. Leader…
Father Time sends Santa a message telling him that the baby new year, Happy, is missing! And without the baby new year, it’ll remain the old year forever. But it’s…
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he…