Let this show put you in swing with spring!
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
George Archainbaud
Director
Ben Hecht
Writer
Bob Hope
Nicky Nelson
Shirley Ross
Lily Racquel
Una Merkel
Flo Saunders
Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa
Rufe Davis
Stoney
Bernard Nedell
Stephen Hanratty
Frank Sully
Sailor Burke / The Living Corpse
Bernadene Hayes
Miss Marble
Richard Denning
Mr. Weems
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