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.

Rating: 6.5

Cast:

Bill

Walker

Dorothy

Neumann

Ray

Montgomery

Nolan

Leary

Jimmie

Horan

Mitzi

Gaynor

David

Wayne

Oscar

Levant

Warren

Stevens

Craig

Hill

Hazel

Brooks

Bob

Graham

Gwen

Verdon

Lovyss

Bradley

Marjorie

Holliday

George

Conrad

Marietta

Canty

Barrie

Chase

Jean

Darling

Jimmie

Dodd

Fred

Essler

Frank

Ferguson

Wilton

Graff

Joyce

Mackenzie

Matt

Mattox

Julie

Newmar

Bill

Walker

Dorothy

Neumann

Ray

Montgomery

Nolan

Leary

Jimmie

Horan

Mitzi

Gaynor

David

Wayne

Oscar

Levant

Warren

Stevens

Craig

Hill