Wally Brown

A sailor enlists his fellow Merchant Marines to help with an excess of girlfriends while on leave in this romantic comedy. Furloughed in San Francisco, Dan Arland (Gordon Oliver) gets mixed up with three amorous females and tries to pass two of them off to his pals Monty (Wally Brown) and Orville (Alan Carney) while he devotes his time to debutante Annabelle (played by future news journalist Elaine Shepard). Virginia Mayo stars in an early role, and Dooley Wilson (Sam in Casablanca), Freddie Slack and His Orchestra, and the zany "corn aggregation" led by Freddie "Schnickelfritz" Fisher provide musical breaks.

John Hayes, a Civil War veteran, fights to protect a gold shipment from a bitter Confederate officer, Clay Putnam. Clay wants to revive the Confederate cause and plans to steal a shipment. His wife complicates matters since she is Hayes's old flame.

Gordon Miller (George Murphy) has a hit in the works, especially since he latched onto a playwright whose real talent is his singing voice. Now all that flimflamming Miller must do is put his musical revue on stage before the rubber check underwriting it bounces his troupe from Broadway to the Bowery. As the typewriter-toting crooner, Frank Sinatra steps into his first top billing in this antic backstage musical based on the Broadway/Marx Brothers movie hit Room Service. With a nimble cast (including Gloria DeHaven, Adolphe Menjou and Walter Slezak) and buoyant Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne songs to go with farce, footlights and Frank, what else can a movie do but Step Lively?