Madie Levrington is a wealthy woman who is also neurotic. She was committed to a New York mental institution by her husband, Benjamin, in order to keep her from divorcing him and taking his money. She manages to escape and, in the process, hitches a ride on a livestock truck.
Torch singer Bijou Blanche has been kicked off one South Seas island after another. She is accompanied by naval deserter Edward Patrick 'Little Ned' Finnegan and magician/pickpocket Sasha Mencken. Eventually, she meets a handsome young naval officer, Lt.
French actress Didi has become more famous for bubble bath commercials than her acting. She runs away for a while to Oregon, where she encounters middle-aged married realtor Tom Meade who agrees to assist her, and becomes enmeshed in various complications when he and his wacky housekeeper try to hide her from his wife and the public. Everyone is convinced Meade and Didi are having an affair.
Meek, aging, hypochondriac stage producer J.J. Hobart, who always thinks he is about to die, is going to mount a new show, but his partners Morty Wethered and Tom Hugo lost the money for the show in the stock market. On the advice of chorus girl Genevieve Larkin, they insure J.J.
A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob may end his life faster than cancer. Joe is a regular guy who runs a flower shop and has never had much in the way of good luck. Things seem to be grim for Joe when he's diagnosed with a brain tumor, but a bit of good fortune appears on the horizon when he wins a jackpot at the race track.
In October 1941, war correspondents and brothers "Jonny" and Kirk Davis return to the still-neutral United States after being kicked out of Germany. Jonny's boss, isolationist New York Daily Chronicle publisher George L. Stafford, refuses to print his story about Japan and Germany's plans for the world, but Jonny tricks him into doing so, and gets fired for his trouble.
Six weeks after the death of her mother, Nancy Perkins' father marries Doris and decides to enroll Nancy into a boarding school, the Sherwood School for Girls. They are greeted by the principal, Mrs. Thorndyke, who emphasizes to Nancy that the school is not a corrective institution but a private preparatory school with an outstanding reputation.
A.J. Niles is a provocative best-selling author who discovers he was ripped off by his accountant, Herman Wapinger, and owes a large tax debt. Under the alias, Jack Adams, Niles goes undercover in a California suburban community called Paradise Village to research a new book about the wives and lives there.
In a small French farming village, visiting Italian logger Manou and his son Bruno sleep in a barn. Manou's sexual dalliances with the local women arouse the hatred and envy of the male villagers, and the jealous villagers blame him for a spate of recent fires and a flood. However, he is innocent; the culprit is the local school teacher, only referred to as "Mademoiselle", a recent arrival admired by all, but sexually repressed and obsessed with Manou.
Psychiatrist Ed Altman moves to Palm Springs, California, after the suicide of one of his patients. He is charged with professional misconduct, and is trying to avoid litigation. He gets involved with a married woman, Ally Mercer, who has her own motives for the relationship with Altman.
A beautiful streetwise taxi dancer named Barbara O'Neill works at a New York City dance hall called Palais de Dance. One of the dance hall's wealthy patrons, Bradley Carlton, comes to the hall and gives Barbara $100. Concerned about her unemployed friend and neighbor Eddie Miller, Barbara asks Bradley to give him a job, and he agrees.
Molly Thatcher is a stockbroker languishing in a New York company run by male chauvinist Bullard Bear. When the company does poorly, he decides that he has to fire somebody. As the only female broker, Molly is the obvious choice since dismissing a male broker would make people think the company is in trouble.
After a long humbling year temping as a traffic cop on a studio lot, Jody is faced with the hard decision of taking the only well-paying industry job she has yet been offered — editing porn at Grind Productions, a profitable adult film company run by former porn star Irene Fox (Kristen Johnston). At first horrified by the prospect of exposing herself to the cockroaches of the film industry, not to mention the effect it would have on her strict Jewish parents, Jody has a remarkable change of heart when she realizes that Grind has all the facilities she needs to make her own low budget movie — on the sly of course — but things get…
In a small, isolated village on the West side of England, seven-year-old Brydie White is running with a playmate, Julian, who trips and falls. He is accidentally killed by his father's loaded shotgun that he was playing with. Brydie is injured with a wound to her head causing some intellectual disability.
In a nightly escape from his day job as a mechanic, Rico enters his true element: the wild exuberance of "La Luna", a salsa club located in East Los Angeles, California. Dreaming of making himself and Vicky, his girlfriend, the "King and Queen of Salsa", Rico pours all his energy into winning La Luna's Grand Salsa Competition. But when Luna, the club's gorgeous owner sets her sights on making Rico her dance partner, Rico must decide what drives him, his ambition or his heart.
thumb|thumbtime=5|Sally (1929) Sally Green is an orphan who had been abandoned as a baby at the Bowling Green telephone exchange. While living in an orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing after being taught by an old woman. In an attempt to save enough money to become a dancer, Sally began working odd jobs.
Diane Andrews is a haughty Wall Street floor trader without any romantic interests. One day, Sheikh Selim, the ruler of an oil-rich Gulf country, who has been tracking Diane has her drugged, kidnapped, and brought to his harem overseen by eunuch Massoud. Despite Diane's initial protests, as the two come to appreciate each other, they fall in love.
Former brawler and womanizer Luke Fargo returns from the American Civil War to his Southern hometown a greatly changed man. Following his traumatic experience at the Battle of Vicksburg, he has become a minister, intent on rebuilding the town's only church, which burned down. He is greeted with disbelief by his friends, including Matty, and with outright hostility by the rest of the townsfolk, as he fought on the Union side.
Three sisters living in Switzerland hear their father is going to marry a younger woman in New York City so they travel there to prevent it. Their plan involves getting a man to seduce her father's fiancée. They accidentally hire a genuinely rich man who falls for one of the sisters.
Nick and Charlie, a couple of aging thieves looking for a last score before they retire, come to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida, where they have an elaborate scheme to rob a Harry Winston jewelry store. The shop is well-guarded and has high-tech security. Its manager, Edward, welcomes an elderly customer seeking an expensive gift for a terminally ill wife.
Bert Harris works for a hotel as a bellboy. One day, he meets Anne Roberts, who signs up as a chambermaid. He takes a fancy to her and lets her in on his racket, conning people out of money.