笔名萨莉的神秘作者创作的青春爱情小说《海妖》系列风靡全球，这本描述了一个普通人类女性和人鱼的爱情史诗让全球的读者为之疯狂，短时间内就已销量破亿。人们都疯狂猜测这部作品的走向，作者到底是何许人也？这一切都不是严肃文学作家西蒙想要的生活，没想到自己用笔名创作出来的“快餐文学”能如此畅销，他努力想在这样的环境里保持住自己身份的秘密，可是一纸电影合约，却打破了一切，他不得不和电影明星佩里见面。

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Once upon a time in the USA, Broadway and Business had a baby: the Corporate Musical. This is the story of one of Capitalism's strangest creations and the comedy writer obsessed with rescuing this hidden world from obscurity. With David Letterman, Martin Short, Susan Stroman, Jello Biafra and more.

Once upon a time in the USA, Broadway and Business had a baby: the Corporate Musical. This is the story of one of Capitalism's strangest creations and the comedy writer obsessed with rescuing this hidden world from obscurity. With David Letterman, Martin Short, Susan Stroman, Jello Biafra and more.

“The Americans invented jazz to make up for death, the star to recover from women. To comfort themselves faced with the night, they invented Broadway. Every evening in downtown New York, an artificial day begins. Its purpose is to advertise the shows, vaunt the products, and the inventors of these adverts would be quite astonished to discover that the most fascinating spectacle, the most precious object, is the street transfigured by their signage. This day has its own inhabitants, its shadows, its mirages, its ceremonies. It also has its own sun…” (Chris Marker) 　　“The first film I’ve seen in which colour is absolutely necessary.” (Orson Welles)

“The Americans invented jazz to make up for death, the star to recover from women. To comfort themselves faced with the night, they invented Broadway. Every evening in downtown New York, an artificial day begins. Its purpose is to advertise the shows, vaunt the products, and the inventors of these adverts would be quite astonished to discover that the most fascinating spectacle, the most precious object, is the street transfigured by their signage. This day has its own inhabitants, its shadows, its mirages, its ceremonies. It also has its own sun…” (Chris Marker) 　　“The first film I’ve seen in which colour is absolutely necessary.” (Orson Welles)

汉克（贝茜·洛芙 Bessie Love 饰）和奎妮（安妮塔·佩姬 Anita Page 饰）是情同手足的好姐妹，两人相约来到车水马龙的繁华大都市纽约，在汉克的老相好艾迪（查尔斯·金 Charles King 饰）的帮助之下，两人进入了歌舞团成为了歌舞女郎，很快就声名鹊起。 　　虽然汉克和艾迪已经相恋多年，但艾迪发现自己竟然情不自禁的被奎妮深深的吸引，与此同时，娇俏可人的奎妮赢得了大富豪贾科（肯尼思·汤姆森 Kenneth Thomson 饰）的青睐，后者对她展开了非常热烈的攻势。汉克看出贾科是一个心术不正的纨绔子弟，屡屡劝说奎妮离他远一点，但奎妮早已经陷入了贾科为她编织的美梦之中。

汉克和奎妮是情同手足的好姐妹，两人相约来到纽约，在汉克的老相好艾迪的帮助之下，进入歌舞团成为歌舞女郎，很快声名鹊起。虽然汉克和艾迪已经相恋多年，但艾迪发现自己竟然情不自禁的被奎妮深深吸引，与此同时，娇俏可人的奎妮赢得了大富豪贾科的青睐，汉克看出贾科是一个心术不正的纨绔子弟，劝说奎妮离他远一点，但奎妮早已经陷入了贾科为她编织的美梦之中。

秀兰·邓波和在此娱乐片中担任主角，乔治·墨菲和杰米·杜朗特在剧中客串踢踏舞者。百茜是一个被旅店经理收养的孤儿，旅店经理常租借房子给表演者们，旅店客人都抱怨歌声骚扰了他们，并扬言要把百茜送回孤儿院去。电影最精华之处在于秀兰·邓波儿演唱的歌“我们应该在一起”和与乔治·墨菲一起表演的踢踏舞“乐观点”。