78 minutos
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
Barrie Chase
Dancer
Jean Darling
Lilyan Tashman
Jimmie Dodd
Will Rogers
Fred Essler
Dutchman
Frank Ferguson
Ned
Wilton Graff
Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld
Joyce Mackenzie
Babette
Matt Mattox
Dancer
Julie Newmar
Speciality Dancer - 'Beale Street Blues'
Bill Walker
Cook
Dorothy Neumann
Cashier
Ray Montgomery
Army Lieutenant
Nolan Leary
Stage Doorman
Jimmie Horan
Audience Member
