Sally, Irene and Mary were three separate hit Broadway musicals, so somebody got the fancy idea to make a musical with all three names together in an unrelated show. It's three Cinderella stories for the price of one, basically "Gold Diggers with Glass Slippers", a sweet story of three chorus girls looking to make it big on the great white way. Here, they aren't actually on Broadway, indeed, they are way off Broadway, in the middle of the Hudson, on an old tug they turn into a nightclub. During the middle of the "big show", it all threatens to sink when the anchor holding them ashore all of a sudden snaps and sends them roaring into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The host claims it was all for publicity and urges everybody to go back to their tables where perhaps they'll find the card of some ambulance chasing attorney who wants to be hired by the scared patrons to sue the pants off of the owners for threatening to hurt them. But the romantic storyline of two of the characters must be resolved, and this leads to a silly announcement about what the audience had seen on stage right before the boat threatened to join the Luscitania, Titanic, Morotania and other water vessels down in the depths near Davey Jones' locker.
The three girls are sweet little Miss Alice Faye, feisty comic Joan Davis and lucky Marjorie Weaver (the inheritor of the beaten up old show boat), first seen as struggling chorus girls who work as manacurists, and later involved in a Broadway revue starring Tony Martin. When one of the show's investors (Louise Hovick, aka Gypsy Rose Lee) becomes jealous of the obvious attraction between Faye and Martin (ironically married at the time), she angrily insists that Alice be fired. But the temperamental Ms. Hovick better be careful about what she wishes for, because therefore goes the lover you want, Tony Martin basically following Faye out of the theater and onto the show boat where she can't be fired by anybody, especially the red hot mama of the striptease who shows up for the big night on one last ditch effort to win Martin back.
With Alice and Tony providing songs, Joan Davis providing comedy (getting that mad romantic Russian Gregory Ratoff to back off of his continued harassment of Faye) and Hovick providing the bitchy other woman, there's not much left for Marjorie Reynolds to do. Fred Allen provides his usual dead-pan observations, and Jimmy Durante is also present for a few musical moments and his usual slapstick. A very funny Barnett Parker provides effeminate comedy relief with additional excellent character actor support by Eddie Collins and Mary Treen. While the staging of the musical numbers is lavish, the songs aren't really all that memorable, although one little novelty number ("Who stole the jam?") is amusing.
The three girls are sweet little Miss Alice Faye, feisty comic Joan Davis and lucky Marjorie Weaver (the inheritor of the beaten up old show boat), first seen as struggling chorus girls who work as manacurists, and later involved in a Broadway revue starring Tony Martin. When one of the show's investors (Louise Hovick, aka Gypsy Rose Lee) becomes jealous of the obvious attraction between Faye and Martin (ironically married at the time), she angrily insists that Alice be fired. But the temperamental Ms. Hovick better be careful about what she wishes for, because therefore goes the lover you want, Tony Martin basically following Faye out of the theater and onto the show boat where she can't be fired by anybody, especially the red hot mama of the striptease who shows up for the big night on one last ditch effort to win Martin back.
With Alice and Tony providing songs, Joan Davis providing comedy (getting that mad romantic Russian Gregory Ratoff to back off of his continued harassment of Faye) and Hovick providing the bitchy other woman, there's not much left for Marjorie Reynolds to do. Fred Allen provides his usual dead-pan observations, and Jimmy Durante is also present for a few musical moments and his usual slapstick. A very funny Barnett Parker provides effeminate comedy relief with additional excellent character actor support by Eddie Collins and Mary Treen. While the staging of the musical numbers is lavish, the songs aren't really all that memorable, although one little novelty number ("Who stole the jam?") is amusing.