Presenting Lily Mars

Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his heart.

Presenting Lily Mars is a 1944 drama musical movie directed by Norman Taurog, starring Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.8/10 from 1,445 votes and runs 1h 44m.