Jim Hardy and Ted Hanover have been vaudeville partners for many years but when Ted announces that he and Jim’s girlfriend, dancer Lila Dixon, are going to set off on their own, Jim decides the time has come to retire. He buys himself a farmhouse in New England and settles into the country life but soon realizes that he has an opportunity to do something special. He decides to open his inn to the public, but only on major holidays – hence Holiday Inn. Things are going well for him until his Ted shows up and sets his sights on Jim’s new friend, Linda Mason (Majorie Reynolds). To hide her from Ted, Jim has Linda perform – reluctantly, bemoaning ‘how pretty’ she had wanted to look – in unrecognisable blackface.
Wally Westmore was the makeup artist.