One of those shorter B-movie comedies, Jam Session (dir. Charles Barton) has a story about a young woman, Terry Baxter (Ann Miller), who wants to make it in Hollywood. She arrives in town and rents the only room she can get - a bed under the stairs with a curtain for privacy - then tries her best to get discovered, mainly by sneaking onto movie lots and trying to get in front of the producers, sometimes in disguise as an old lady, sometimes by pretending to be a secretary.

Sort of a successor to the Broadway Melody series (they changed the title around the same time they dropped Eleanor Powell from the cast), Broadway Rhythm (dir. Roy Del Ruth) stars George Murphy as Broadway producer Jonnie Demming, who becomes fixated on getting Hollywood star Helen Hoyt (Ginny Simms) to star in his next show. When she doesn't like the script and turns him down, he starts courting her hoping he can change her mind.

Lady, Let's Dance (dir. Frank Woodruff) stars British ice skater Belita as a version of herself who is a Belgian refugee from WWII. When a hotel needs a last minute replacement for a dancer, Belita, who is working as a maid at the hotel, is picked for the job. She's a success as a dancer, and eventually gets recruited for a Broadway ice show, where she becomes a huge star.

Very loosely based on the life of some actual vaudeville stars, Shine On, Harvest Moon (dir. David Butler) stars Dennis Morgan as Jack Norworth, a performer and songwriter who meets singer Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) at a nightclub where she is mistreated by her boss, Dan Costello (Robert Shayne). He offers to give her a better act performing his songs, and they form a lifelong partnership.

Cover Girl (dir. Charles Vidor) stars Rita Hayworth as Rusty Parker, a dancer at a nightclub, who gets chosen to be the cover girl on Vanity magazine because of her resemblance to her grandmother, to whom the editor John Coudair (Otto Kruger, and as a young man Jess Barker) was once engaged. This makes her instantly famous and leads to a job offer from Broadway producer Noel Wheaton (Lee Bowman).

A musical comedy adapted from a stage musical by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson, Knickerbocker Holiday (dir. Harry Joe Brown) is a period piece set in New Amsterdam in the 17th century. A new governor, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn), is about to arrive from the Netherlands, and the local council decides to execute local publisher Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy) who has been exposing their corruption.

Throughout the Second World War, many entertainers who were not in active duty in the military worked to entertain troops in various capacities, including undertaking tours to visit troops who were fighting overseas, under the United Service Organisations (USO). Four Jills in a Jeep (1944) is a musical comedy based on the real experience of four entertainers when they went on a USO tour to Europe and North Africa: Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair.

A low budget comedy, Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (dir. Lewis D. Collins) is a bit of an odd one. Una Merkel stars as Patsy Wilkins, a worker at a tool making factory who accidentally knocks herself out at work; the rest of the movie is presented as a dream sequence. In the dream, Patsy is unable to find a job because of her boss Gilhooley (Ralph Sanford) blacklisting her.

Up in Arms (dir. Elliott Nugent) is a comedy starring Danny Kaye as Danny Weems, a hypochondriac who works as an elevator operator in a hospital in order to have easy access to the doctors. Danny is in love with nurse Mary Morgan (Constance Dowling), who is actually in love with Danny's best friend Joe Nelson (Dana Andrews) but too nice to let Danny down; at the same time, Mary's best friend Virginia Merrill (Dinah Shore) is in love with Danny, who is oblivious.

Another Broadway adaptation, Lady in the Dark (dir. Mitchell Leisen) stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of a major fashion magazine who has been suffering from depression and anxiety. She's dating a married man she doesn't love (Warner Baxter) because he got her this job, and she deals with employees like Charley Johnson (Ray Milland) who constantly mocks and irritates her for not being feminine enough.

In Cowboy Canteen (dir. Lew Landers), a group of entertainers have volunteered to go work on a ranch while the cowboys are off in the army. Steve Bradley (Charles Starrett) is pretty unhappy to have received show people instead of real farm hands, but he quickly warms to one of them, Connie Gray (Jane Frazee), before leaving. Once at the nearby army base, Steve is asked to help set up a canteen to entertain the soldiers, and gets the troupe at his ranch to put on the entertainment.

Chip Off the Old Block (dir. Charles Lamont) stars Donald O'Connor as Donald Corrigan, an army cadet from a military family, who is travelling to New York to see his father when he meets Glory Marlowe (Ann Blyth), whose mother and grandmother are famous performers. They hit it off, but the relationship encounters trouble because of Donald's overly affectionate childhood sweetheart and musical partner Peggy (Peggy Ryan) (who he's been stringing along a bit), and the Marlowe family's history with the Corrigans.

Joan Davis has been appearing here and there in supporting roles in films I've watched so far, but here she gets the starring role. Directed by Charles Barton, this film is a comedy about secretary Dottie Duncan (Davis), who is left in charge of a failing talent agency. She organises a gig for an all-girl band, but on the way there they end up stranded in a small town.

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In Career Girl (dir. Wallace Fox), Frances Langford stars as Joan Terry, a Kansas City girl who moved to Broadway to try and get discovered as a singer. She moves into a boarding house full of other aspiring young stars, and when they hear her sing they decide to band together to support her career. When she gets her break, however, her fiancé (Craig Woods) interferes, as he wants her to give up her career and become a housewife.

Loosely adapted from a Broadway musical, Higher and Higher (dir. Tim Whelan) is about a group of servants working for the upper class Cyrus Drake (Leon Errol), who has lost his fortune after getting divorced, and is unable to pay his staff. For some reason, the staff have continued working for him happliy for seven months without pay, and don't realise he is bankrupt until he invites them all to dine with him and announces it (notably, he does not include the one Black staff member, Oscar (Dooley Wilson)).