An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Star Pola Negri and director Ernst Lubitsch, who created an international sensation with the German superproduction DuBarry, Woman of Passion, were reunited in the frothy Hollywood comedy/drama Forbidden Paradise. Negri is cast as Catherine, the Czarina of an unnamed but very Russian-looking country. Rescued from revolutionaries by dashing Captain Alexis Czerny (Rod LaRocque), Catherine "repays" the Captain in the boudoir. Czerny falls madly in love with the Czarina, only to discover that he is the latest in a long line of royal consorts. Angrily, he joins the rebellion, vowing to topple the monarchy (but promising that Catherine will remain unharmed). When the revolution fails, Czerny is sentenced to death, but Catherine rescinds the order and allows him a happily-ever-after with his true love, lady-in-waiting Anna (Pauline Starke). Adolphe Menjou, a favorite of Lubitsch's, has all the film's best scenes as a rakish chancellor. Based on a play by Lajos Biro and Melchoir Lengyel, Forbidden Paradise was remade in 1945 as A Royal Scandal, with Tallulah Bankhead as Catherine; the 1945 film was produced by Ernst Lubitsch, who fell ill during shooting and was forced to relinquish the directorial responsibilities to Otto Preminger. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

18岁的玛丽（凯瑟琳·赫本 Katharine Hepburn 饰）从法国回到了苏格兰，推翻了冒牌王后伊丽莎白（弗萝伦丝·艾尔德里吉 Florence Eldridge 饰）的统治。宫里的大臣们虽然表面效忠于玛丽王后，但背地里各怀鬼胎。
在大臣们的逼迫之下，玛丽王后借给了好色的达恩利王（道格拉斯·沃尔顿 Douglas Walton 饰），这段政治联姻让玛丽感到非常的痛苦。大臣们企图利用昏庸的达恩利王谋反，在阴谋得逞之后将其谋杀，紧接着又将他的死，嫁祸给了玛丽的第二任丈夫博斯威尔（弗雷德里克·马奇 Fredric March 饰）。就在玛丽因为政权焦头烂额之际，伊丽莎白提出想要帮她一把，可这个阴险的女人亦有着自己的算盘。

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..