James Cagney stars as a producer on his way out due to the public’s growing preference for talking pictures over stage musicals. Cagney comes up with an ingenious idea to produce live prologues–short stage musicals–which can precede films in the larger movie houses. With no time to prepare, he and his troupe devise and present three new works at three different theaters on the same night! Arguably the best of the backstage musicals thanks to a more rounded script and a knockout performance from Cagney in his first singing and dancing screen role, the film features racy pre-Code fantasies such as “Honeymoon Hotel” and the staggering “By a Waterfall.”