演员保罗·奥尔曼偶然得知,他订做的燕尾服受到过诅咒,但凡是穿过它的人都会碰上厄运。在接下来连续发生的四个关于燕尾服和它的主人们的故事中,所谓的“厄运”似乎往往将事物真实的一面向人们揭示开。
During the Civil War, two of the oldest families in Kentucky, the Dillons and the Goodwins, began a long, bitter feud that has lasted into 1938. When Jack Dillon refuses to enter his father's banking business, he, under an assumed name, gets a job as a trainer in Sally Goodwin's stables. A romance develops between them. When Sally's father dies, the entire estate--including the...
Judge William "Billy" Priest lives in a very patriotic (Confederate) southern town. Priest plays a laid-back, widowed judge who helps uphold the law in his toughest court case yet. In the meantime, he plays matchmaker for his young nephew.
桑德拉(玛丽·阿斯特 Mary Astor 饰)虽然已有家室,却深深的爱上了皮特(乔治·布伦特 George Brent 饰),最终,两人决定抛弃所有的一切私奔。虽然他们得以过上了朝夕相处的日子,但桑德拉的婚姻始终是两人关系里的一根刺。当桑德拉怀上了皮特的孩子后,皮特却转而同自己的未婚妻玛姬(贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰)结婚了,这让桑德拉非常的愤怒和震惊。
皮特所搭乘的飞机遭遇了空难,皮特下落不明,于是,玛姬决定给桑德拉一笔钱,让她把肚子里的孩子打掉。可就在两个女人争得不可开交之时,皮特竟然奇迹般的再度现身,让本来就难解的闹剧更加复杂了起来。
Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans befriends seldom-sober director Max Carey and is soon in the big-time. She hooks Eastern millionaire Lonnie Borden, but he soon tires of the Hollywood lifestyle and of playing second fiddle to a star. Carey looks on with interest--when he can see straight.