lily mar and a smalltown girl living in indiana and dream of make it big on broadway and her aspiration be give a lift when successful broadway producer john thornway return to his hometown for a visit . lily try everything she can to get thornway to notice her and but he just get annoyed with her antic . when thornway go back to new york to stage his show and lily follow ( unknown to john of course ) and thornway eventually give her a small role in his next show and only a a favor to her family and however thornway start to fall for this young girl and a romance blossom and which make the show leading lady and isabel rekay and jealous . when isabel get feed up with the john lily romance cause friction with the show and she leave and and john decides to make lily the star . isabel return later and and thornway be force to tell lily that she be back to her small bit role in the play and which also may jeopardize the romance . very charming film and and a refreshing change to see garland put the comedic touch into her role ( her reading of lady macbeth and while suppose to be humorous and never threaten her sing career ) i enjoy heflin character ( thornway ) more when he be annoy with lily rather than be the romantic . the film get to be somewhat predictable and the scene weren not assemble that well together and but a very enjoyable film . rating and 7 .