In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.

吉姆（赫伯特·马歇尔 Herbert Marshall 饰）即将和未婚妻携手步入婚姻的殿堂，但他始终觉得，自己对未婚妻更多的是责任而不是感情。一次偶然中，失意的吉姆在公园里散步，邂逅了名叫琼（琪恩·亚瑟 Jean Arthur 饰）的女孩。琼正在找工作，她烧得一手好菜，可是，所有招聘厨师的广告都要求招聘厨师和管家的夫妻组合，没有人要单打独斗的琼。
看到了同样形单影只的吉姆，琼灵机一动，她说服了吉姆和自己假扮夫妻，并且最终顺利的获得了一份工作。在相处的过程中，吉姆和琼之间渐渐产生了真挚的感情，可是吉姆一直对琼隐瞒着自己的真实情况，眼看着琼对自己越来越信赖，吉姆该何去何从呢？

Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.

Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an attractive, adventurous model, who thinks being invisible would help her settle a few scores. Complications arise when three comic gangsters steal the machine to use on their boss. But they fail to reckon with the Revenge of the Invisible Woman!

After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.