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.
as Eva Tanguay
as Ed McCoy
as Charles Bennett
as Keene
as Lawrence
as Stella Forrest
as Larry Woods
as Specialty Dancer
as Nurse
as Secretary
as Dresser
as Dolly
as Dancer
as Lilyan Tashman
as Will Rogers
as Dutchman
as Ned
as Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld
as Babette
as Dancer
as Speciality Dancer - 'Beale Street Blues'
as Cook
as Cashier
as Army Lieutenant
as Stage Doorman
as Audience Member
