An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further is when Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
약혼자 프레스톤에게 화가 난 줄리는 그들의 약혼이 발표될 예정인 뉴올리언스의 중요한 사교계 행사 올림포스 무도회에서 프레스톤을 난처하게 만들 계획을 세운다. 미혼 여성들은 관례상 흰 드레스를 입는데 줄리는 빨간 드레스를 입고 나타난다. 결과적으로 줄리의 기대와 어긋나게 약혼이 깨진다. 3년 후, 프레스톤은 아내와 함께 줄리의 농장을 방문하는데, 프레스톤이 뉴올리언스 전역에 유행하던 치명적인 황열병에 걸린다.
