
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.

Mitzi Gaynor
Eva Tanguay

David Wayne
Ed McCoy

Oscar Levant
Charles Bennett

Warren Stevens
Keene

Craig Hill
Lawrence

Hazel Brooks
Stella Forrest

Bob Graham
Larry Woods

Gwen Verdon
Specialty Dancer
Lovyss Bradley
Nurse
Marjorie Holliday
Secretary
George Conrad
Dresser

Marietta Canty
Dolly

Shattered to Pieces
Shattered to Pieces

A Song for Miss Julie
A Song for Miss Julie

Julie Ganapathi
Julie Ganapathi

Il était une fois... Patrick Bruel
Il était une fois... Patrick Bruel

The Thrill of Brazil
The Thrill of Brazil

How's About It
How's About It

Viva Blackpool
Viva Blackpool

Walk the Line
Walk the Line

Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer

The First Nudie Musical
The First Nudie Musical

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

The Cursed Jug
The Cursed Jug