Kiss Me, Kate

Backstage at a Baltimore theatre, a company is about to raise the curtain on a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew, and its two stars can barely stand each other. Actor-manager Fred Graham and his ex-wife and leading lady, Lilli Vanessi, carry their feud from the dressing rooms onto the stage, while Fred chases the ingénue Lois Lane, her boyfriend Bill racks up gambling debts and two gangsters turn up to collect.