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General Marmaduke Oldfish Pepper drives his daughter Peggy Pepper from their Georgia home to Hollywood so that they can prove to the Hollywood filmmaking community and thus the world that she is a great and serious dramatic actress. Unlike the royal reception and easy ride they were expecting, Peggy is treated like the plethora of other Hollywood hopefuls--until they meet bit player Billy Boone at a studio commissary, he who believes she would be perfect for the movie which he is currently filming. It isn't until after filming her first scene that she realizes that Billy is part of a comedy troupe, the movie is a slapstick comedy, and the Georgia "hokum" (as it is described by the director) that is Peggy's acting is perfect for broad farce, and is not the great serious art that Peggy had mistakenly believed. Billy, who is falling for Peggy, did not mean to denigrate her, but wants her to embrace her natural comedy. After Peggy does, she becomes an overnight success as a comedic movie actress. Peggy does come to the attention of "serious" Hollywood, who try to capitalize on that success. She is convinced by one of her serious movie leading men, Andre Telfair, who is really French Count Andre d'Bergerac, that her private life has to match that serious screen image for her to become a complete success in Hollywood. Thus, transforming herself from Peggy Pepper, down home Georgia waif, to "Patricia Pepoire", serious French aristocratic actress, could be her biggest acting challenge. Eventually she needs to decided whether losing her identity is worth her original goal of being a serious dramatic actress.