Ken Murray is trying to get his musical show about Oklhoma starring newcomer Alice Faye open on Broadway. He has to open on the 20th according to his contract, but it's a bad night for it, so he hires George Murphy to pretend to be a wealthy Oklahoman madly in love with Miss Faye, who has bought out the house for a week. Murray wants to marry Miss Faye, but soon enough, Murphy's breezy personality and off-stage dancing win her over.
David Butler directs the kitchen-sink musical with a harpist playing "The Saint Louis Blues", Andy Devine doing the 13x7=28 skit, and a dance act working with lariats in between the wise cracks and such. It's actually pretty much the model that Universal's musicals would follow through the middle of the next decade, and the professionalism of the leads carries the nonsense along at a good clip, Murphy does a nice bit of hoofing, Miss Faye sells a couple of decent but unremarkable songs, and the cast includes Samuel Hinds, Charles Winninger, Frank Jenks, and Donald Meek. Frances Hunt has a good role as the second lead.
