Angela Whitaker (Hope Drown) is a young unknown who comes to Hollywood to become an actress, and brings her grandfather, Joel Whitaker (Luke Cosgrave). At the end of the first day, she has not found work, but her grandfather has.
Remember "Mem" Steddon (Eleanor Boardman) marries Owen Scudder (Lew Cody) after a whirlwind courtship. However, on their wedding night, she has a change of heart. When the train taking them to Los Angeles stops for water, she impulsively and secretly gets off in the middle of the desert. Strangely, when Scudder realizes she is gone, he does not have the train stopped.
The travelling theatre troupe's worst actress, Violet (Beatrice Lillie) dreams of all she could be if she only had the right opportunities. Jimmy (Jack Pickford) is a runaway bank clerk who joins the troupe as a lead actor.
Dolly (Norma Shearer) is a stagestruck girl whose career has begun to wane until she displays show-must-go-on courage by standing-in as target in a knife-throwing act.
When the film begins, a musical show before closed down before it has had a chance to even open. Jimmie Doyle (Jack Mulhall), who wrote the musical intends to rewrite it while his girlfriend, Dixie Dugan (Alice White), fed up at wasting her time for a show that never even opened, is intent on finding a new career. While at a nightclub, Dixie does a musical number and catches the eye of Frank Buelow (John Miljan), a Hollywood director. Buelow persuades Dixie to go to Hollywood, where he will have a part waiting for her in his upcoming films.
Un inconnu au visage séduisant s'installe dans la petite ville de Brewster. Afin de trouver des solutions aux problèmes de la ville, il crée une émission sur la chaîne de télévision locale, à l'heure où l'audience est la plus forte. En réalité, ce nouveau venu prend un malin plaisir à semer les germes du doute et de la médisance.
During the filming of a death scene of The Death Kiss, leading man Myles Brent is really shot and killed. Tonart Studios manager Joseph Steiner (Lugosi) is assigned to handle the situation. The studio wants to pass it off as a simple accident, but screenwriter Franklyn Drew (Manners) digs a bullet out of a wall and tells Homicide Detective Lieutenant Sheehan that it is a .38 caliber, while the guns used in the film are all .45s.
Harold Hall est un jeune homme qui veut devenir acteur alors qu'il n'a aucun talent pour la comédie. Réussissant toutefois à obtenir un rendez-vous pour un casting, il se rend à Hollywood et enchaîne les bourdes et les catastrophes lors de son test…
Un escroc doit quitter New York à la suite d'un braquage. Il est finalement arrêté et envoyé en prison. A sa sortie, il devient figurant puis star de cinéma...
Bob Preston, homme de publicité pour Superba Pictures, utilise ses talents de publicité pour tenter de faire de cette fiancée June Dale la star de cinéma la plus célèbre au monde. Mais ce faisant, il oublie que les femmes veulent être prises en charge pour elles-mêmes, pas comme des objets de renommée.
Lannie (Jack Oakie) has Annabel (Lucille Ball) taken into prison in order to generate publicity before the release of her new movie. However, when Annabel is released a month later, she finds that nobody has noticed, and she has Lannie fired. But when he pays a struggling actress to pretend to be his sick mother, Annabel has Lannie rehired, and he immediately begins plotting his next stunt.
Une vedette d'opérette de Broadway trouve un bébé et se prend d'affection pour lui. Elle tente de l'adopter, mais elle ne peut en obtenir la garde qu'à condition d'être mariée. Elle arrange un mariage blanc avec son pédiatre...
New York actor Thomas Madden has fallen from grace due to alcoholism and manages to get fired from his job as Santa Claus in a department store on Christmas Eve. This puts both him and his sweet young daughter Kathi on the spot. Kathi is physically challenged with a paralyzed foot.