Step Lively: Gordon Miller (George Murphy) fast-talking Broadway producer needs funds fast. He owes the Crilton Hotel a whopping bill & is completely broke
- when the auditor Wagner (Adolphe Menjou) arrives he & his company will be thrown out. He needs to arrange a speedy deal with his backer Jenkins (Eugene Pallette)
- but will he bite? Meanwhile Glenn Russell (Frank Sinatra) a playwright who put up money for a show that has mysteriously failed to materialise is also looking for satisfaction. The only way that Miller can make enough money is to put on a show
- but the only way he can put on a show is if he gets money. Can there be a way out of this morass? Miller thinks there is & it all hangs on a cancelled cheque... Higher & Higher: Cyrus Drake (Leon Errol) has a problem on his hands
- he's a big socialite on the verge of bankruptcy. He calls his sympathetic servants to a crisis meeting & his loyal valet Mike O' Brien (Jack Haley) suggests that the scullery maid Millie Pico (Michele Morgan) pose as Drake's daughter who has been out of the country for many years. As sponsor of an upcoming ball she is sure to attract a wealthy husband who will solve all their problems. Could the wealthy nobleman Sir Victor Fitzroy Victor (Victor Borge) be the man who will save them
- although he is the escort of rival debutante Katherine Keating (Barbara Hale)? But what about the relationship forming between Millie & her handsome neighbour Frank (Frank Sinatra)?