In the small town of Waterloo, Kansas, Eddie Stone, who claims to be a movie producer, holds a beauty contest, the first prize of which is a part in a movie. Just before Nellie Moore's pretty sister Cecilia is about to be crowned the winner, however, Cecilia's boyfriend, Joe Jenkins, finds out that Stone is a phony and has skipped town with all of the entrance fees. Nellie faints at the news, after which Joe decides to sell his garage and move to Hollywood to see if he can help make Cecilia a star. Some time later, Joe has gotten a job at the Colonial Club, which sends live broadcasts to the Midwest. While Nellie and Cecilia are listening to one of the broadcasts, they hear an emergency airplane landing, and discover that star Rinaldo Lopez, is on board. After being hospitable to the travelers, Nellie and Cecilia are offered plane tickets to Hollywood by Mr. and Mrs. MacGregor, who decide that they now prefer train travel. Nellie sends Joe a telegram telling him they are coming and in Hollywood they check into a swank hotel, because Rinaldo tells him that they should stay at an "important" address. Joe never gets the telegram, however, and when Rinaldo takes Cecilia and Nellie to the Colonial Club later that evening, Joe, who is a waiter there, has to pretend that he is part of the floor show because he has written to the girls that he is a now a successful performer. When Nellie discovers that Joe has been lying, she is angry and leaves. Going after Nellie, Joe runs into the street and is hit by the car of Mr. Klawheimer, the head of a motion picture studio. Because Klawheimer wants to avoid a lawsuit, he gives Joe a job as a studio driver. At the same time, Rinaldo takes the girls to the studio to watch musical star Dagmar shoot a number for her new picture. They are fascinated by the big production number and excited to meet comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Later, while Nellie is busy watching a fight scene set in a Mexican Cantina, Rinaldo invites Cecilia to his apartment and she innocently accepts. Unknown to them, however, Joe is their driver and when he realizes what Rinaldo is up to, he returns to the studio for Nellie. While Joe is gone, Cecilia begins to realize what Rinaldo is really like. When Joe and Nellie return, Cecilia is crying, prompting Nellie to knock Rinaldo out cold. Joe stays to revive Rinaldo when Cecilia and Nellie leave, and the remorseful Rinaldo says that he will try to get Cecilia a job in pictures. The next day, Cecilia is ready for her big test. After Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy break a mirror, which assures Nellie that her sister will have bad luck, Cecilia goes ahead with the test and gets very nervous. To help her out, Joe enters the scene and sings a duet with her, and they fantasize that they are in a real Hollywood production number. After the test, the studio executives are truly impressed.