James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Humble," by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists.
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
월 스트리트 사업가 제리는 유능한 비서 줄리아와 진지한 관계를 맺길 원하지만, 줄리아에게는 약혼자 필립이 있다. 제리의 구애를 뿌리친 줄리아는 필립과의 결혼을 서두르고, 더 이상 줄리아와 함께 일할 수 없다고 생각한 제리는 그녀를 해고한다. 1년 후 줄리아를 만난 제리는 그녀에게 다시 반하고, 둘 사이에 대해 의혹을 품고 있던 필립은 해서는 안 될 짓을 벌이고 만다. 떠오르는 스타였던 클로데트 콜베르의 지적인 매력이 스크린을 가득 채운다.
