Rodney Deane (Gene Raymond) is a rich playboy who falls in love with nightclub singer Abby Fane (Carole Lombard). Abby wants him to get a job, so he begins working for his father. She later finds out that he is not taking the work seriously and still spends his days at the racetrack, so she leaves him.
The plot was based on, the well-known, at the time, marriage of Hollywood starlet Helen Twelvetrees and stuntman Jack Woody. A spat on a Hollywood set between stuntman Steve Bennett and actress Laura Marley leads to the two of them falling in love and being married. Steve's work is dangerous and Laura persuades him to quit, but he has difficulty finding a different occupation.
Mars and Venus were both born on the same day when a phenomenon causes the planets to align together. So Venus and her family receive all the luck in the world while Mars' family blames him for all the miseries they experienced in life. Mars and Venus grew up together as childhood friends but separated later on when Venus and her family migrates abroad.
Philip de Wit becomes depressed after his young wife, Marian Faber, dies in a car accident. A year later while working in his late wife's bookstore, he briefly encounters a woman who closely resembles Marian. He becomes obsessed to find her, knowing only that she speaks English, is from Northern Ireland, and is called Eileen.
Vallery Grove is in love with Don Warren, but her mother opposes the match because he is poor and has no social standing. Don decides to terminate his engagement to Vallery after attending a party where he meets a spoiled rich girl who is interested in him. Dolores is later introduced to Owen Mallory who informs her that Don is now planning to marry the spoiled rich girl.
Tommy Linklater is an 18-year-old whose magic is often minor (re-directing croquet balls, making cards appear in closed purses, etc.) but is always genuine since he actually does the impossible. He soon learns that his hobby for playing chess while his mother was alive is another gift that she left him. His father, Herman Linklater, is a physicist who believes that all the universes mysteries will eventually be explained away.
thumb|left|upright|Gladys Cooper as Arline in The Bohemian Girl Arline is the little daughter of Count Arnheim, governor of an Austrian province who lives in feudal splendor near a forest where a Gypsy Queen and her tribe encamp, with her lieutenant, Devilshoof. He comes by chance upon Thaddeus, a young Polish refugee pursued by Austrian soldiers. Devilshoof protects the youth and offers him the concealment of gypsy garb.
A group of thirty-something Toronto friends and so-called friends try to navigate the world of love, romance and relationships, often within the context of those friendships and so-called friendships. The so-called ones are often in only a case of needing to maintain some sense of harmony in light of other friendships or relationships within the group. Included within the group are a married couple, a long-term couple (fifteen years) perhaps on the verge of marriage, some exes, some singles looking for love without success, some singles who may have found love already that hasn't or haven't worked out, and some players who aren't looking…
As described in a film magazine, Jane Vale, a forty year old business woman who ran a great industrial plant left to her by her father, awoke to the realization that she was in love with Robert Elliott, a youth scarcely more than half her age. This lad first attracted her attention by opposing her policy in a matter of production. She was passing at the time and heard him refer to her executive staff as "yes" men.
The Fines must survive Christmas with the Kringles. Rebecca, Jewish, and her fiancé Henry, Christian, must get to know their in-laws, put up with fighting parents, and survey their family's traditions as they prepare to share a life together.
During the 1950s Regina Malloy grows up in an abusive, low-class Brooklyn family. She receives encouragement from the neighborhood tailor, Mr. Luria, to pursue higher education.
Boyd is an American with an uncanny ability to speak Japanese. He aspires to succeed in the world of Japanese business but finds himself mostly on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, his roommate Jerome is a Japanese American who has always felt too American to be Japanese but too Japanese to be American.
A man returns from a trip to Peru rich and looking for a wife. While still single, he has a real estate agent show him a house or two. The agent invites him to dinner, during which the agent and his wife start bickering, causing the poor fellow to rethink marriage over.
At Montgomery Advertising in New York City, Duke Crawford (Robert Cummings) is having trouble handling the account of cosmetics manufacturer Michele Bennett (Anna Sten), one of the company's most important clients—and his former fiancée. Still determined to win him back, Michele refuses to sign a contract until Duke reciprocates her affection. When Duke threatens to quit Michele's account, his boss James Montgomery (Harry Antrim) assigns him to do the book promotion for a new client, a nerve psychologist named J.O.
A Coast Guardsman must rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from smugglers willing to kill in order to maintain their illegal trade in seal skins. Along the way, he has to overcome a less-than-competent superior officer and being kidnapped by the smugglers.
Jucy is a "womantic" comedy about best friends Jackie (Cindy Nelson) and Lucy (Francesca Gasteen). They're in their mid twenties but not much has changed since high school. Jackie's social anxiety is still not under control and she remains incapable of a mature relationship with a man; Lucy hasn't finished either of the university degrees she started and still lives with her mother.
Fanie and Sarel are young Afrikaners; Fanie a custom car designer, Sarel a successful pop star. On a dare, Fanie invites a beautiful Zulu woman, Dinky Magubane, to come as his date to Sarel's wedding. Dinky agrees, provided Fanie pretend to be her boyfriend so she can evade her family's pressure towards marriage.
Susan Fletcher and her millionaire father, Simon, are eager to take care of her late sister's two daughters, Joan and Katie, but her deceased brother-in-law's will placed them in the custody of his brother, John O'Halloran. Mr. Fletcher's lawyers inform him that there is nothing they can do, unless John can be shown to be unemployed.
Inspired by a visit from their old friend Lieutenant Mullins, an officer in the Aerial Nurse Corps, nurses Glenda White and Dottie Morrison decide to enlist in the Paranurses, an elite unit of nurses that parachute into hard-to-reach areas to aid injured soldiers. At the training center, Glenda and Dottie are assigned to the squad led by Captain Jane Morgan. At the cantina, the two nurses befriend Gretchen Ernst, a cadet who is being ostracized because her brother is an officer in the German army.
Two broken-hearted person met as roommate and they learn to let go of the past and set out to find their soulmate in the beautiful romantic city, Paris.