Known for Acting
Bickering brothers Phil and Freddie Russo unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.
A photographer is murdered just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it's whisked around the campus by an ex-con night watchman. However, he is not the killer, and Freddie, Betty, Dodie, and Lee set out to find the culprit, who managed to put a big damper on the big dance.
The growth of small town juvenile crime starts a movement for the building of a youth center. The project leaders discuss with the mayor about buying an old warehouse and rebuilding it as the Center. However, the mayor has other plans. Freddie, Dodie, Lee, Betty, Roy and Monogram's other non-delinquent juveniles, now attending junior college, think otherwise.
Socialite Cathy Abbott is working in the chorus of a Broadway show instead of being enrolled at an exclusive girl's school as her parents think. When the show closes, she brings two of her chorus friends home with her. In addition to trying to make her friends acceptable to the snooty society of which her family is part, she is also being blackmailed by a rival.
A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends that 'Sarge' be given a few weeks' rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. Meanwhile, the Teen-Agers are rehearsing a show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Through a series of romantic entanglements, will they be able to put on the big show?
Miss Hinklefink inherits a western ranch, and to spend the summer with Professor Townley, she invites Freddie, Dodie, Betty, Lee, and Roy to spend their vacation on the ranch if Townley will chaperone. Meanwhile, a real estate agent tries to persuade her to send the kids home when desperadoes rob the bank.
The football team can't score a win, the paper is on the outs, and the musical is booting performers. Can the plucky band of Whitney High students turn it all around?
A rich man's son runs for student president at the local high school, and the father tells the school principal that if his son wins, he'll make a sizeable donation that will cover the football team's uniforms.
High school student Freddie Trimball bears an uncanny resemblance to famous radio singer Frankie Troy. When Troy goes missing, people mistake Freddie for the singer, and further complications ensue when Troy's wife and child show up.
A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.
After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.