A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.

Ed Wynn
as Cricket

Ginger Rogers
as Mary Brennan

Stanley Smith
as Jimmie Moore

Lou Holtz
as Sam Platz

Lida Kane
as Ma Brennan

Ethel Merman
as Helen King

Bobby Watson
as George White

Donald Kirke
as R.C. Black

William Halligan
as Bob Sterling

Holly Hall
as Fritzie Devere