安妮塔（英格丽·褒曼 Ingrid Bergman 饰）是一名极富才华的钢琴师，一次偶然之中，她邂逅了名为霍尔格（莱斯利·霍华德 Leslie Howard 饰）的小提琴师。霍尔格在行业内是数一数二的顶尖人物，尽管已经有了妻室，但惺惺相惜的安妮塔和霍尔格两人还是抵挡不住爱情的诱惑，违背了道德走到了一起。
安妮塔和霍尔德结伴前往世界各地展开巡回演出，这一段疯狂的日子充满了幸福和难忘的时刻，让安妮塔短暂忘记了自己的处境。然而，安妮特的老师格瑞塔（爱德娜·贝斯特 Edna Best 饰）将前者拉回了现实之中，在格瑞塔的谆谆教诲之下，安妮塔开始意识到自己的存在对霍尔格的家人造成了巨大的伤害，经过了痛苦的思量，安妮塔最终决定结束这段感情。

格利高里．拉托夫导演的一部家庭伦理片。故事描述一名家庭女教师在女主人去世后，与男主人一起照顾家中四个男孩的故事。剧情没有新意，大团圆结局不出所料。但是故事流畅，时间跨度大，由小见大反应了大萧条前后美国社会中产阶级的生活。影片唯一的亮点是英格丽．褒曼让人倾心的清新形象，她凭本片开始在美国影坛立足。苏珊．海沃德则饰演顽劣的大儿媳妇而崭露头角。

Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.

A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.

A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.