A low budget production, it stars singer Frances Langford in the title role, Ralph Edwards – from TV's This Is Your Life – and Russell Wade, usually a bit player.

During World War II, young Captain Patrick Ransom, Jr. (Russell Wade), an experienced private recreational pilot, has just been commissioned and given command of a B-29, bomber.

Seeking to meet up with his veteran aircrew for the first time before shipping out together the next morning to the Pacific, he is first ditched by the unimpressed and wily bunch, which misdirects him to a declasse New York nightclub, then snubbed by his elitist fiancée, socialite Eileen Sawyer (Jane Greer), who refuses to accompany him there.

Seeking to capitalize on their fame, the Air Corps decides to bring the "Bamboo Blonde" and its crew back home to front a national war bond drive.

Convinced her romance with Ransom is just a lark on his part, and determined to ruin any possibility of a match together, she gives her full vampy nightclub performance to the stuffy old money crowd.

Scenes from The Bamboo Blonde later appeared in an excerpted form in Make Mine Laughs (1949), starring Joan Davis, Dennis Day and Ray Bolger.