It all starts when Ian Hunter, scion of the 400 marries a lady of the theater, shocking sisters Dorothy Peterson and Zasu Pitts.... actually, Miss Pitts isn't shocked. She wanted a career in the show business, but it was unthinkable. Hunter leaves the house, and in a few years has a motherless daughter in Pat Paterson, who wants to go into show business, which he forbids. She defies him, and begins a romance with Kenny Baker, son of Leo Carillo, one-time street musician and now chef.
52nd Street west of 5th Avenue begins as a domain of the 400, but by the time the movie is halfway over, it's a place for night clubs, with Misses Peterson and Pitts holding out. There are plenty of popular acts, lots of swing songs by Harold Spina and Walter Bullock, and a standard plot. It's an agreeable movie, if not overly distinguished -- better songs might have helped, but they all tend towards the raucous. With Ella Logan, Al Shean, Sid Silvers, Jerry Colonna, Pat Harrington Sr, and Al Norman.
