In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil–where the nuts come from.
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting…
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his…
American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happiness.
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he’s…
At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as…
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another’s fiancé, and the youngest sister…
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her…
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King…
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl,…
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a “restless” spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to…
