King Kelly of the U.S.A.

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King Kelly of the U.S.A. is a 1934 American romantic musical film directed by Leonard Fields. It stars Guy Robertson in his only feature film, with Irene Ware and Edgar Kennedy.

Plot: James W. Kelly and his friend Happy Moran lead an all‑girl dance troupe, “Kelly’s Affairs,” traveling to Europe by ship. Kelly falls for a mysterious woman named Catherine Bell. A gold-digging woman named Maxine tries to woo a rich man, J. Ashton Brockton, who ends up taking over the troupe’s management and gets Kelly a job in the tiny, broke kingdom of Belgardia.

In Belgardia, the country is penniless and people aren’t buying mop products anymore. A king, Maxmilian, is secretly in disguise as a tramp and becomes their servant. Kelly and Happy discover Belgardia’s trouble and open the royal palace to tourists, turning it into an amusement park with mop prizes. Kelly, now a crooner, promotes mops on the radio to save the kingdom and wins Catherine Bell, who is really Princess Tania.

Time runs short when Prince Alexis from Moronia invades to seize the castle. With the army unpaid and quitting, the only defenders are the women tourists and their “Personality Mops.”