Top-billed Ginger Rogers, three years before her initial career-making teaming with Fred Astaire, was just dipping her tapping toes in the movies when she made this Pathé melody comedy. Having already conquered vaudeville and Broadway, she is introduced here under her own name as "our little star" to sing two nightclub numbers in a Betty Boop-like comic voice (and with brunette hair which she'd soon ditch for lighter shades). Framed as a story told by ...

The story of seven scholars (including Danny Kaye and Benny Goodman) in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson (Virginia Mayo). But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college ...

When a lead dancer on a cruise ship is asked to transport a mine, neither she nor her pulp-fiction-author beau knows she's working for spies - who got the idea from one of his novels!

The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with theaddition of comedy and drama films.

The life of two of the most important swing and jazz musicians and band leaders. This is a nostalgic look at the music of an era.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama.