Fast-talking Lee Tracy stars as a gossip columnist loosely based on real-life fast-talking radio gossip monger Walter Winchell, a man who will reveal any secret and destroy any person to further his meteoric rise to fame., Satire and melodrama blend in this yarn about a news-hungry gossip columnist., A silver-tongued journalist arouses the ire of a dangerous mobster when he makes a rising radio singer the target of abuse in his daily newspaper column. Wise-cracking fun, this pic offers Lee Tracy in a trademark Walter Winchell-esque role and is also crooner Dick Powell’s film debut.