杰克（布莱德利·库珀 Bradley Cooper 饰）是一位小有名气的乡村歌手，但酗酒的恶习屡屡让他的事业停滞不前。一天，在酒吧里，杰克邂逅了名为艾利（Lady Gaga 饰）的驻唱歌女，在艾利的身上，杰克发现了惊人的天赋。
曾经，艾利对音乐事业怀有着热情和梦想，可是现实一次又一次的令她失望，久而久之，艾利失去了前进的动力。虽然拥有着出色的创作能力，但是艾利在酒吧里从来不唱自己写的歌，同时她也明白，听众们虽然喜欢她的声音，却对她算不上好看的外表敬而远之。杰克被艾利深深的吸引了，决定帮助她找回初心，在此过程中，两颗孤独的心慢慢靠近。

埃斯特·布洛杰特是好莱坞一个很有发展前途的演员，她在正走下坡路的大明星诺曼·梅因举办的一次慈善募捐演出中崭露头角，很快就爱上了这个年长且深于世故的人。而诺曼也为她的天真活泼所深深吸引。诺曼为埃斯特创造了几次演出的机会使她一举成名，他们两人遂结成佳偶。埃斯特由于天赋极高，事业上的声望与日俱增，但这使得每况愈下的诺曼深感沮丧。后来他酗酒、脾气暴躁。埃斯特被生活中两种强烈的爱、即对丈夫的爱和对事业的爱所折磨着。在一个描写这两种爱的歌舞节目中，埃斯特怀着两种矛盾的爱又唱又跳，她用《出生在箱子里》来表达她早年渴望成名的野心和命中注定的经历，而她表演的《离去的人》，则使诺曼终于完全理解了妻子的伟大的公众拥有这样一位明星的权利。可是，若没有埃斯特的经常陪伴，他又无法生活下去，最后只好以自杀结束生命。埃斯特在哀痛中继续演出，并以自己的歌声来永恒地纪念她的丈夫。

一名酗酒的好莱坞巨星，亲身经历了自己的事业从绚烂至衰落的过程，而他亲手发掘的新星，在嫁给他之后，从无名之辈变成了影城巨星。这部深入刻画明星生涯的杰出之作，让人们对好莱坞的内幕大开眼界。本片的剧情虽然通俗化，但导演威廉惠曼，演员菲德烈马区、珍妮．盖诺、亚道夫．孟郁和里昂．奴史丹特都表现出一流的水准，娱乐性和艺术性均高。此片曾获最佳原着故事金像奖。

本片是同一故事第三度重拍的版本。此片将好莱坞的背景改成今日的摇滚乐坛，男主角原是着名的摇滚乐歌手，而女主角则在小型夜总会卖艺。影片中有不少热门插曲，部分片段的镜头和表演都不俗，但整体则显得有点矫揉造作，角色欠缺真正的生命感，不过娱乐性还是维持相当水准。本片曾获奥斯卡最佳电影插曲金像奖。

当三兄弟加入外籍军团以逃避过去的麻烦时，他们发现自己被困在一名虐待狂中士的指挥下，深入灼热的撒哈拉沙漠。现在，兄弟俩必须为自己的生命而战，密谋叛变反对暴政，并保卫沙漠堡垒免受残酷敌人的侵害。

While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.