Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
| Directing | Preston Sturges | Director |
| Sound | Friedrich Hollaender | Original Music Composer |
| Production | William LeBaron | Executive Producer |
| Art | A. E. Freudeman | Set Decoration |
| Production | Buddy G. DeSylva | Producer |
| Art | A. Earl Hedrick | Art Direction |
| Art | Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Writing | Preston Sturges | Writer |
| Editing | Hugh Bennett | Editor |
| Camera | William C. Mellor | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frank Thayer | Makeup Artist |
