Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

1937 film by William Dieterle, William Keighley

A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.

Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland Coulter arrested. She finds a bunch of "not guilty" ballots and publishes the wrong story; he eavesdrops on the jury and gets the correct verdict. After being fired she gets a confession from the real killer and gets Coulter released.

Dan Bellows是一位初绽锋芒的建筑师，他在未婚妻的鼓励陪伴下，正在进行一座建筑工程的规划设计。这时，他遇见了Joyce Heath,曾经对他影响重大的天才演员。这位沉寂的女明星因周遭人的事故背上了"不幸之女"的称号，如今日日赴酒神盛宴，于悬崖跳舞。昏迷在小酒馆的她被心怀感恩的Dan带回乡间别墅。却不想两人在别墅里日渐擦出火花。Dan取消了婚约，自掏腰包让她重返舞台。一切都在向好的方向发展，Joyce却越来越忧心，比起不幸的命运，她深藏的秘密和她的反应才真正决定了故事的结局...