 Struggling would-be actor Joe McDoakes takes correspondence courses on being an actor and finally gets a casting call from Warner Brothers for a small part in a war movie. After getting confusing directions to the sound stage from actor Jack Carson, he arrives late to the set and attempts to read lines like his heroes, Charles Boyer and Ronald Colman He turns the scene into a fiasco and has to settle for a pie-in-the-face as a stand in for look-alike comedy star George O Hanlon.