Three sailors spend a day in New York. Gabey sees a poster of “Miss Turnstiles” on the subway and falls in love. He meets her briefly and mistakes her for a celebrity. When she runs off, he decides to look for her and spends the day searching. His buddies agree to help, but are soon distracted, Ozzie by an anthropologist and Chip by a taxi driver. They get involved in various hijinks which get the cops after them (Ozzie knocks over a dinosaur skeleton at Claire’s museum and Chip’s girl, Hilde, doesn’t turn in her taxi on time.)

Gabey meets his girl, Ivy, in a dance studio and makes a date. They fall in love, but Ivy doesn’t want him to know she’s just a sideshow dancer and not a celebrity, so she walks out on him. He tracks her down. They confess their love, but the cops catch up to the three and arrest them and take them back to their ship. The girls talk the cops into giving them an escort to the ship in time to kiss their sailors good-bye.

I’m tired of these musicals that go nowhere. The stories are amusing, but the songs just interrupt the flow and add nothing. Gene Kelly always has to do an interpretive dance that makes things grind to a halt.