A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.

A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.