Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.
Mickey Rooney
as Stanley Maxton
Sally Forrest
as Jane Tafford
William Demarest
as Fluff
James Craig
as Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay Brown
as Edna
Louis Armstrong
as Himself
Myrna Dell
as Paulette Ardrey
Vic Damone
as Himself
Art Lewis
as Sam
Tommy Rettig
as Artie Ardrey
Tom Powers
as Lt. Detective Bonnabel
Jonathan Cott
as Behr