It's 1930. Pops is dead, the Stock Market has crashed, and the wolf is at the door. When Mitzi Schector crosses the threshold of the Broadway Ritz for a lowly usherette job, little does the eighteen-year-old know she has just stepped into her future. Mitzi's life is about to change into a world of movie moguls, platinum-blondes, and romance in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to sound. Mitzi finds herself caught between her idolization of Hollywood's latest heartthrob and the reality of David Stein, a handsome theater owner to whom she won't give the time of day. How can David make her realize he's the man for her?