凯特（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）是一名剧作家，虽然她靠写作获得的收入十分的微薄，但是她在读者中却相当的有名气。米莉（米利亚姆·霍普金斯 Miriam Hopkins 饰）是凯特的好友，同时也是她的同行，她暗地里非常嫉妒凯特的才华。终于，米莉出版了她的第一本畅销小说，风头盖过了凯特，但福无双至，米莉的丈夫普雷斯顿（约翰·洛德 John Loder 饰）在这个节骨眼上选择了离开她。
一晃眼十年过去，凯特即将和年轻的小男友路德（吉格·杨 Gig Young 饰）携手步入婚礼的殿堂，米莉幻想着自己能够和普雷斯顿重修旧好，哪知道得到的却是普雷斯顿订婚的消息。双重打击之下，米莉将所有的过错都怪到了凯特的头上。

A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.

A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.

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Carter meets Toni and impulsively marry him to find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later on the eve before their divorce they meet again and spend the night together.

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.