A Night at Earl Carrolls (1940)

Newlyelected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carrolls night club Steve Kalkus the defeated racketeerpolitician has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office In Carrolls absence his assistant Ramona Lisa and his press agent Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls cloakroom girls the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles