海明威的作品改编。

道林格雷（乔治·桑德斯 George Sanders 饰）是一个出生非常卑微的穷小子，在一次机缘巧合之下结识了著名画家巴兹尔（Lowell Gilmore 饰）和绅士亨利，在两人的引荐之下，道林格雷接触到了巴黎上流社交圈的奢靡生活，就此无法自拔。巴兹尔为道林格雷画了一副肖像画，将他美丽的身体描摹得栩栩如生，这幅画已经流入市场就引发了圈内各路人士的热烈讨论与赞美，道林格雷也就此成为了圈中名人。
之后，道林格雷邂逅了名为塞西莉亚（唐娜·里德 Donna Reed 饰）的女子，塞西莉亚是一位美丽的剧场演员，没过多久，两人就坠入了情网之中，决定邂逅步入婚姻的殿堂。当亨利得知道林格雷即将结婚的消息大为震惊，他用花言巧语诱骗道林格雷抛弃塞西莉亚，最终导致了他们两人感情的破裂。

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.

Cary Grant plays gambler, Joe Adams, who takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. Adams plans to use a war relief charity to get his gambling operation up and running, until he falls in love with Lorraine Day and has a change of heart.

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.

Lola Burns 是风靡一时的“金发炸弹”（blonde bombshell），却被炒作不停、家人无底线地榨取、经纪人 Space 用绯闻不断推上头条。她渴望平凡生活却屡遭阻挠，逃离好莱坞并陷入一段看似浪漫的恋情。终点却发现，所谓的理想生活不过是经纪人布下的阴谋，结局则在混乱中带着一丝坦荡与自嘲

A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.