

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Acting
Turner's early star wattage before she became 'The Sweater Girl'.
Production
MGM gloss on a B-picture budget — fake contest, real studio magic.
Writing
Self-aware Hollywood satire about manufacturing stardom.

Director
S. Sylvan Simon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real swing dancers from Los Angeles colleges were hired as extras, making the 'fake' contest sequences oddly authentic.
Released weeks before WWII began, this was among the last purely escapist MGM musicals before the studio pivoted to war propaganda.