Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.

Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.

Socialite Cathy Abbott is working in the chorus of a Broadway show instead of being enrolled at an exclusive girl's school as her parents think. When the show closes, she brings two of her chorus friends home with her. In addition to trying to make her friends acceptable to the snooty society of which her family is part, she is also being blackmailed by a rival.

Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."

Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.

价值连城的红宝石失窃，这宗案件被众多报社争相报道。每日公报的主编觉得自己手下的记者写出来的文章实在是太无聊了，抓不住读者的眼球，于是请来了闻名业内的天才记者乔治（乔尔·麦克雷 Joel McCrea 饰）为自己撰写新闻。 乔治自认为是一名大预言家，曾经屡次精准的预测过犯罪事件的发生。这一次，乔治认为盗窃宝石的，是大家都以为已经死去的大盗博尔利。某日，乔治在路上遇到了一个名为克莱尔（琪恩·亚瑟 Jean Arthur 饰）的女人。衣衫褴褛的克莱尔向乔治求助，于心不忍的乔治伸出了援手，哪知道就此被卷入了一个巨大的阴谋之中。

佩吉（Kathryn Sheldon 饰）是合唱团里当之无愧的女王，拥有美丽的外表和温柔的个性的她深受观众的同僚们的喜爱。一次偶然中，佩吉邂逅了名为兰迪（哈罗德·米勒 Harold Miller 饰）的富家公子，兰迪被佩吉深深的吸引，坠入了情网，随即展开了热烈的攻势。 面对兰迪的热情，佩吉虽然也春心萌动，但是还是显露出了一丝犹豫。原来，佩吉的母亲梅（阿尔米拉赛逊斯 Almira Sessions 饰）也曾有过和女儿相似的惊人的经历。只是，梅当年的勇敢选择并没有给她带来好的结果。有母亲充满了痛苦和失败的例子在先，站在人生的十字路口的佩吉不知道该如何选择。