Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.
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Judy Canova
Bessie Cobb
Tom Brown
Chick Patterson
Billy Gilbert
Chef Popodopolis
Ruth Terry
Sugar Caston
Thurston Hall
Mr. Adams
Elisha Cook Jr.
Ernie
Jerry Lester
Downbeat
Mildred Coles
Connie Thompson
Harold Huber
Honest Joe Kincaid
Fritz Feld
Chef Petrovich
Frank Sully
Dimples
Jimmy Ames
Gus
Jay Novello
Chef Barzumium
Skinnay Ennis
Danny Marlowe
Paul Fix
Johnny Gatto
