迪莉娅（米利亚姆·霍普金斯 Miriam Hopkins 饰）原本要和克莱姆（乔治·布伦特 George Brent 饰）携手步入婚姻的殿堂，然而半路杀出了个富豪吉姆（詹姆斯·斯蒂芬森 James Stephenson 饰），迪莉娅始乱终弃，最终嫁给了吉姆。
迪莉娅的堂妹夏洛特（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）非常同情克莱姆的遭遇，陪伴并且时时安慰他，不幸的是，克莱姆在战场上身亡了，而此时夏洛特的腹中已经怀上了克莱姆的孩子。最终，夏洛特生下了孩子，并交给莉迪亚抚养，而吉姆的堂兄乔伊（威廉姆·霍珀 William Hopper 饰）则爱上了楚楚可怜的夏洛特，这令善妒的莉迪亚气的快要发疯，发誓一定要破坏两人之间的感情。

1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper

A power struggle ensues after the death of media magnate Amos Kyne, whose corporation has been turned over to his sole heir, his foppish son Walter. Rather than run the company himself, Walter decides to let the heads of its three divisions fight it out for control. Their assignment is to score an exclusive on a serial killer who is terrorizing women in New York. The Kyne organization's newspaper dubs him "The Lipstick Killer." If a resourceful someone can identify him even before the police do, Walter Kyne will reward him with the title of executive director. One of the three, newspaper editor John Day Griffith, has an ally in high-profile reporter Edward Mobley, who also does reports on Kyne's television network. While wire-service chief Mark Loving recruits star writer Mildred Donner to be his eyes and ears, a third contender for the top job, Harry Kritzer, carries on a secret affair with Dorothy, who is Walter Kyne's wife....

1939 film by Edmund Goulding

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Basil Underwood and Joyce Arden have postponed their marriage eleven times. Henry Grant's fiancée Marcia is infatuated with Basil. At Henry's request Basil acts boorishly so as to kill the infatuation, but it doesn't work and Marcia breaks her engagement with Henry. With Marcia about to announce her intentions vis-a-vis Basil, Joyce shows her pictures of children, apparently Basil's. Marcia goes back to Henry and Joyce decides she'd better tie Basil down soon.