After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl's enormous talent, and before long she's performing on Broadway. There, she is extremely successful and finds love with songwriter Frank Carter. Yet obstacles remain for the rising star, especially when he proposes marriage just before he's set to be deployed in World War I.

玛格丽特（弗吉尼亚·梅奥 Virginia Mayo 饰）是一名出身尊贵的公主，虽然过着衣食无忧富足奢侈的生活，但玛格丽特却并不感到快乐。因为她无法自由的去选择自己的感情，而是必须听从国王的安排。
一次偶然中，玛格丽特在一条商船上遇见了名为沙巴斯（鲍勃·霍普 Bob Hope 饰）的演员，此时，意外发生了。贪婪的铁驹船长（维克托·麦克拉格伦 Victor McLaglen 饰）劫持了商船，并且绑架了玛格丽特公主要求巨额赎金。为了救玛格丽特，沙巴斯不惜男扮女装，甚至嫁给了海盗羽毛头（沃尔特·布伦南 Walter Brennan 饰）。羽毛头早就不满铁驹船长的独裁统治，他命令沙巴斯去偷取藏宝图。

Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.

A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.

A socialite with aspirations of a career in show business bets her wealthy uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for two days straight, hoping winning will help her fulfill her dreams.

1935 film by David Butler

年仅6岁的劳德•舍曼（Shirley Temple 秀兰•邓波 饰）是一个天真可爱的小女孩，她憨态可掬，招人疼爱，父亲的士兵都戏谑地称之为小上校。劳德的母亲伊丽莎白（Evelyn Venable 饰）是一位南联盟军上校的女儿，她与来自北方的杰克坠入爱河，却遭致古板父亲（Lionel Barrymore 饰）的反对。最终伊丽莎白选择了爱情，而父亲也与之决裂。
六年后，小上校和母亲返回外公家。时间并未冲淡父女间的隔阂，老上校对女儿依然冷颜以对。小上校的出现打破了尴尬的局面，她凭着机智和可爱渐渐弥合了外公和母亲心中的裂痕……

活泼的小女孩秀兰•布雷克（Shirley Temple 秀兰•邓波 饰）生在一个普通的家庭，虽然家境平平，但充满了快乐和幸福。秀兰平日随妈妈（Lois Wilson 饰）在苛刻、尖酸的史密斯家里帮佣，闲暇时便和飞行员爸爸及其教父詹姆斯（James Dunn 饰）一起玩耍。
然而，这样渺小的幸福也稍纵即逝。爸爸在执行任务时死于空难，妈妈也被车祸夺去了生命。原本快乐的秀兰转眼之间成为孤儿。史密斯家打算将她送进孤儿院，而詹姆斯决定收养这名可怜无助的小女孩……