Beverly Thompson

Artık sessiz filmlerin dönemi kapanmaktadır ve konuşmaların yeraldığı sesli filmlere geçilirken, ünlü bir sahne yıldızı, en iyi arkadaşı, olası kız arkadaşı ve kurnaz oyuncu arkadaşı bu zorlu geçiş dönemine yakalanmışlardır.

Savaş sonrası Paris’te kalan iki Amerikalı, ressam Jerry Mulligan ve besteci Adam Cook, Paris’in bir sanatçı için en ideal yer olduğuna inanmaktadırlar. Jerry, Fransız arkadaşının nişanlısı Lise Bouvier ve zengin dul Milo Roberts arasında kalır. Kısa sürede filizlenen Jerry ile Lise’nin yasak aşkı, ünlü ressamların tablolarından esinlenmiş dekorlar önünde gösterişli bir dans şölenine dönüşür.

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.

Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.

In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.

Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.

A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.