Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk.

Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.

A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.

《咫尺天涯》是雪莉·邓波儿在演绎生涯最高潮演的一部电影，讲述一位失去妻子的男人与小女儿共同经历从富有到贫穷的生活，片中的踢踏舞更是雪莉·邓波儿的拿手好戏。