In 1913, Director Michael Linnett Connors (Don Ameche), chooses Broadway star Molly Adair (Alice Faye) to be in his next film. Molly, though in love with him ends up marrying her co-star, Nicky Hayden (Alan Curtis (American actor)). Connors misunderstands her and fires her, but with that his career quickly declines with the beginning of the sound era.