On a train trip west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women traveling to open a Harvey House restaurant at a remote whistle stop, and joins them when her marriage plans fall through. The girls battle corruption in their new town, mostly through the use of showstopping musical numbers. The film won an Oscar for the Johnny Mercer-Harry Warren song "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe."