Sidney Skolsky

Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.

캘리포니아주 로스앤젤레스의 선셋 대로에 위치한 대저택에서 살인사건이 발생한다. 유명 여배우의 풀장에서 한 시나리오 작가가 총에 맞은 채 죽어서 발견된 것이다. 경찰이 출동한 가운데 세상 사람들은 이 사건에 눈과 귀를 기울인다. 사건이 일어나기 정확히 6개월 전. 주로 B급 영화의 시나리오를 썼던 조셉 길리스는 벌이가 좋지 않아 차까지 압류당할 위기에 처한다. 해결사들의 추격을 받던 조셉은 선셋 대로에 위치한 대저택에 숨어들었다가 그 곳의 주인이자 과거 무성영화 시절 스타인 노마 데스몬드을 만나게 된다. 노마는 조셉에게 자신이 쓴 시나리오를 보여주며 유혹하는데...

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.

Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.