Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he’s come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He’ll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriwea...
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. But the hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
8岁的小女孩丽贝卡（Shirley Temple 秀兰邓波 饰）天生拥有一副好嗓子，她随继父哈里（William Demarest 饰）参加某电台的选秀，其歌喉令制作人东尼（Randolph Scott 饰）绝倒，然哈里却误以为继女落选，已带着丽贝卡先行离开。
在此之后，丽贝卡被寄养在利瓦博罗的米兰达姑妈（Helen Westley 饰）那里，严厉的姑妈禁止侄女在公众面前抛投露面唱歌。但这怎能抑制小女孩表演的天性呢？巧合的是，东尼的别墅刚好在米拉达家的隔壁。东尼和丽贝卡一拍即合，悄悄地在隔壁开始了丽贝卡独唱的广播……
本片根据美国作家Kate Douglas Wiggin 1903年同名儿童文学改编。
