Clooney performs her hit song "Come On-a My House" and Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior sings "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci in this Technicolor production.

[1] A 15-year-old Polish girl attempts to enter the U.S. illegally, setting off a major search by immigration officials.

She is befriended by a struggling group of New York performers, who try to get approval for her to remain in the country.

The film cost $1,264,337[2] and earned an estimated $1.6 million at the North American box office in 1953.

[3] The film's world premier was in Clooney's home town, Maysville, Kentucky, at the Russell Theatre.