艾斯特(珍妮·盖诺 Janet Gaynor 饰)是怀揣着成名的梦想,刚刚步入好莱坞发展的年轻女演员,在大明星诺曼(弗雷德里克·马奇 Fredric March 饰)举办的慈善演出中,艾斯特大放异彩,成为了万众瞩目的焦点,而她和诺曼之间也相互吸引,渐渐产生了感情,就这样,两人走到了一起。
诺曼用自己的人脉帮助艾斯特创造了一些演出机会,而艾斯特本身就是一个悟性非常高的女孩,拥有绝佳的表演天赋,没过多久,她就成为了冉冉升起的新星,未来可期,前途无量。但相对的,艾斯特的成名反衬出了诺曼的过气,他酗酒的毛病让他的星途屡遭滑铁卢。虽然妻子的优秀令诺曼感到自豪,但沮丧和挫败感亦在无时不刻的折磨着他。
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Nick和Nora 这对搞笑侦探夫妻档总是连手出击调查案件。这回他们要着手的是一位发明家失踪的案子,要找出为何会失踪,且失踪到哪里去了……?
相当成功地将喜剧和悬疑元素交融在一起。William Powell和Myrna Loy 饰演的夫妻档,是影史上第一对塑造成功的屏幕情侣组合!本片导演就是影坛上有『一次OK』之封号的 W.S. Van Dyke,本片他只花了两礼拜就拍摄完毕!由华人黄宗沾担纲摄影指导。本片独有的喜剧悬疑风,也成往后这类型电影的祖师爷。Albert Hackett和Frances Goodrich 根据 Dashiell Hammett 的小说改编成剧本。后来还拍摄了五部续集。
Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson) and Wilhelmina Clark (Jean Arthur) work at the same accounting firm. Jones turns out to look exactly like the notorious bank robber "Killer" Mannion (also Robinson) and is apprehended by the police.
After his true identity is confirmed, the district attorney gives Jones a letter identifying him, so that he can avoid the same trouble in...
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper-box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin, luck is against him, and he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse feed, but suddenly a pl...