Sleepytime Gal (1942)

Bessie Cobb cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miamis swankier hotels is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson bell captain who believes he can not only enrich Bessie but himself his fiancée and the kitchens three screwball chefs Chef Popodopolis Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by bandleader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent Chick has a recording made of Bessies voice and substitutes it for that of Sugar Caston who is being sponsored by a bigtime gangster and is set up to win But members of a rival gang out to get Sugar mistake Besiie for her