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.
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
Clarence Wilson
Mr. Ives
Dudley Dickerson
Sam
Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt
Bass Fiddler
J. Scott Smart
Joe - Hamburger Man
Bobby Dease
Man
Harry Barris
Harry, Piano Player
Nora Cecil
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Russell Hopton
Barker (uncredited)
Director
George Archainbaud
Lyricist
Frank Loesser
Screenplay
Lewis R. Foster
Screenplay
Wilkie C. Mahoney
Theatre Play
Gene Fowler
Theatre Play, Writer
Ben Hecht
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Original Language:
English
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