A pair of songs deleted from two MGM musicals are featured in this short subject: a portion of "We Must Have Music" (music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Gus Kahn), sung and danced by Judy Garland, and cut from La danseuse des Folies Ziegfeld (1941); and "America the Beautiful" (music by Samuel A. Ward, lyrics by Katharine Lee Bates), sung by Risë Stevens, and removed from The Chocolate Soldier (1941).
As the hand is checking off the Music Assignments for upcoming MGM movies, the final page lists 'Wallace Beery As "DOAN OF THE U.S.A." With Marjorie Main. Musical direction Lennie Hayton'. The title was changed to Barnacle Bill (1941), and Bronislau Kaper is the credited music director. Though Hayton also contributed, for some reason, he is uncredited.
At the end, the narrator states, "Good pictures need good players, and, equally, good players make good pictures, and in all Hollywood, in all the history of motion pictures, there has never been a gathering in one studio of a star and feature player list as this." The short then goes on to show 56 individual shots of actors and actresses, without names or titles, mostly in alphabetical order, beginning with Wallace Beery and ending with Teresa Wright.
This short is included as a bonus on the DVD of The Great American Songbook (2003), hosted by Michael Feinstein.