Alice leaves her cornfields to answer the ad of a movie school that promises to make a shining star out of her in record breaking time. Alice arrives at the school - they get her bank roll - and immediately start in to see the way she registers in front of a camera. She is ordered to shed a few tears and the result is a lot of laughs and giggles. A few more trials and she is turned out a finished actress. A diploma is handed to her with the advice to call on the big producers at once. However, in the meantime Alice has to eat and takes a job turning pancakes in one of a well known chain of restaurants. At a studio, she meets a rich actor and tells him that she is the daughter of the restaurant proprietor. They fall in love but Alice nearly loses him when, after seeing her in the window, he decides to visit her table. Her boyfriend from the country also has movie aspirations and is on her trail. Many complication follow.