An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin.

Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error, she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.

出身贫寒的戴茜·克洛弗（娜塔莉·伍德 饰）心怀明星梦，终于有一天受到制作人雷蒙德·斯万（克里斯托弗·普卢默 饰）的赏识如愿以偿进入演艺圈，但公司不仅将其精神失常的母亲关进疯人院，还要其伪装成一个她不喜欢的乖乖少女形象。正当她沮丧不已意志消沉之时，韦德·刘易斯（罗伯特·雷德福 饰）出现在她面前，俩人迅速成为好友关系日渐亲密，最终一起走入婚姻的殿堂。在蜜月之旅中，戴茜全心全意地沉浸在新婚的喜悦之中，韦德却忽然消失了。

凯伦（费雯·丽 Vivien Leigh 饰）曾是一名百老汇的女明星，全靠年长她二十岁的丈夫汤姆（John Phillips 饰）的慷慨资助，才得以在百老汇中站稳脚跟。而如今，年老色衰的她早就在演艺界里失去了地位，可以这么说，如果没有了汤姆，凯伦就会沦为一个无人问津的无名小卒。 在前往罗马旅行的途中，凯伦一直担心的事情终于还是发生了，汤姆突然心脏病发作撒手人寰。于是，伤心欲绝的凯伦在罗马租了一间豪华的房间，决定在那里排遣自己内心的苦闷。一次偶然中，凯伦结识了名为沃伦（沃伦·比蒂 Warren Beatty 饰）的男妓，内心孤独空虚的凯伦很快就将全部的感情投入到了沃伦的身上。