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Chester Kent (James Cagney) replaces his failing career as a director of Broadway musicals with a new one as the creator of musical numbers called "prologues", short live stage productions presented in movie theaters before the main feature is shown. He faces pressure from his business partners to constantly create a large number of marketable prologues to service theaters throughout the country, but his job is made harder by a rival who is stealing his ideas, probably with assistance from someone working inside his company. Kent is so overwhelmed with work that he doesn't realize that his secretary, Nan (Joan Blondell), has fallen in love with him, and is doing her best to protect him as well as his interests.

Kent's business partners announce that they have a big deal pending with the Apolinaris theater circuit, but getting the contract depends on Kent impressing Mr. Apolinaris (Paul Porcasi) with three spectacular prologues, presented on the same night, one after another at three different theatres. Kent locks himself and his staff in the offices to prevent espionage leaks while they choreograph and rehearse the three production numbers. Kent then stages "Honeymoon Hotel", "By a Waterfall", featuring the famous 'Human Waterfall', and "Shanghai Lil", featuring Cagney and Ruby Keeler dancing together.

• James Cagney as Chester Kent, creator of musical prologues
• Joan Blondell as Nan Prescott, his secretary
• Ruby Keeler as Bea Thorn, dancer turned secretary turned dancer
• Dick Powell as Scott "Scotty" Blair, juvenile lead who is Mrs. Gould's "protegé"
• Frank McHugh as Francis, dance director
• Ruth Donnelly as Harriet Bowers Gould, the producer's nepotistic wife
• Guy Kibbee as Silas "Si" Gould, producer
• Hugh Herbert as Charlie Bowers, Mrs. Gould's brother, the censor
• Claire Dodd as Vivian Rich, Nan's friend, a gold digger
• Gordon Westcott as Harry Thompson, Kent's assistant
• Arthur Hohl as Al Frazer, the other producer
• Renee Whitney as Cynthia Kent, Kent's ex-wife
• Paul Porcasi as George Apolinaris, owner of a chain of movie theaters
• Philip Faversham as Joe Barrington, juvenile lead, another protege of Mrs. Gould
• Herman Bing as Fralick, the music director
• Billy Barty as Mouse and Little Boy
• Hobart Cavanaugh as Title-Thinkerupper
• George Chandler as Druggist

Cast notes:

• Dorothy Lamour, Victoria Vinton, Ann Sothern and Lynn Browning were among the many chorus girls in the film. It was Lamour's film debut.
• It is often written that John Garfield made his (uncredited) film debut in this film, but experts were divided if it was actually him in the very quick (5/6ths of a second) shot. According to the 2003 Turner Classic Movies documentary The John Garfield Story, it is not Garfield.

• "Honeymoon Hotel" – by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics)
• "Shanghai Lil" – by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics)
• "By a Waterfall" – by Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics)
• "My Shadow" – by Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics)
• "Ah, the Moon Is Here" – by Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics)
• "Sitting on a Backyard Fence" – by Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics)

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