Cleo Moore is an extra on Hugo Haas' latest picture. When a bit player has to go to the hospital, he gives the three lines to Miss Moore. She blows three takes, despite some quiet coaching by Haas, so he shuts down production for the day, and shoots it with another actress the next day.
Miss Moore does;'t take it well. She thinks she was doing fine, but Haas was tormenting her, trying to make her look like a fool. She decides to get even.
Hugo Haas wrote, directed, and starred in this movie about Miss Moore's search for revenge, and it's a nice little movie...except for Miss Moore, whose delivery is all over the shop. Perhaps that was a deliberate choice, but it winds up being unconvincing. She had been a minor actress in Hollywood for several years at this point. She had also been married to Huey Long's son in her native Louisiana for six weeks when she was nineteen, then came to Hollywood. A couple of years after this movie came out, she ran for governor herself. She died in 1973, aged 48.
