
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

as Bing Crosby

as Bob Hope

as Gary Cooper

as Ray Milland

as Alan Ladd

as Barbara Stanwyck

as Paulette Goddard

as Dorothy Lamour

as Sonny Tufts

as Joan Caulfield

as William Holden

as Lizabeth Scott

as Burt Lancaster

as Gail Russell

as Diana Lynn

as Sterling Hayden

as Robert Preston

as Veronica Lake

as Catherine Brown / Juliet

as Amber La Vonne

as Bob Kirby

as R.J. O'Connell

as Bill Farris

as Mrs. Webster

as Andre

as Busboy at Brown Derby

as Cashier

as Mr. O'Connell's Assistant

as Assistant's Assistant

as Manager at Grauman's Chinese

as John Lund

as William Bendix

as Barry Fitzgerald

as Howard Da Silva

as Macdonald Carey

as Cass Daley

as Patric Knowles

as Mona Freeman

as Billy De Wolfe

as Barker

as Cecil Kellaway

as Variety Girl

as Soldier

as Frank Faylen

as Cecil B. DeMille

as Mitchell Leisen

as Frank Butler

as George Marshall

as Pearl Bailey

as Harmonica Player

as Harmonica Player

as Spike Jones

as Walter Abel (uncredited)

as Makeup Man (uncredited)

as Autograph Seeker (uncredited)

as Secretary (uncredited)

as Variety Girl (uncredited)

as Stanley Clements (uncredited)

as Man at Steambath (uncredited)

as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

as Waiter (uncredited)

as George Reeves (uncredited)

as Hairdresser (uncredited)

as Plane Passenger (uncredited)

as Variety Girl