Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900s when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Belle. After his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butchs face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses after she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.