Eddie Garr

In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights. He is a total supporter of the system, and when he is held-up, decides to reform the criminal by feeding him and finding him work. Later, a local politician attempts to tell people how to vote, but the barber is not swayed and becomes an example to others in his neighborhood.

Eddie Willis, journaliste sportif, accepte l'offre de Benko, un manager de boxe corrompu, pour monter une combine qui les rendra riches. Ils profitent de la naïveté de Toro Moreno, un boxeur lourd et pataud, pour abuser du public auquel ils le présentent comme une force de la nature. Match après match, Toro écrase ses adversaires et gagne la sympathie du public qui, comme lui, ignore que chaque rencontre est truquée.

Peggy, fille de Mae, fait partie de la même troupe de music-hall que sa mère. Cette dernière ne voit pas d'un bon oeil le sentiment qu'elle porte à Randy Caroll, un riche et séduisant admirateur. Mae a elle-même connu cette situation des années auparavant et craint que Peggy à son tour ne soit lâchement abandonnée. Cependant, Randy et Peggy continuent de filer le parfait amour et se décident à annoncer leurs fiançailles. Que va dire la famille du riche jeune homme lorsqu'elle apprendra que son rejeton et héritier songe à épouser une vedette de music-hall ?

A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary performers.

Following a live orchestra opening, emcee Eddie Garr greets the audience and tells them about his trip to Los Angeles, where out-of-work actors are always 'acting' while in their service-industry jobs. What follows is a cavalcade of wild and wacky performances.

Two strip Technicolor short film. While the film is considered lost, the Library of Congress has acquired a musical sequence from the film.

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.