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- Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry.
- The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.
- The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.
- A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
- Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
- Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).
- A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
- A nightclub dancer marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.
- A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
- A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
- An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
- A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
- A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
- An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
- A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
- Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.
- Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
- Cabaret performer Ivy Stevens in an affair with a low-rent traveling salesman is dumped in a 'Dear Jane' letter and finds solace in joining the Salvation Army.
- When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
- The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
- Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the war's unspoken casualties.
- After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother (William Bakewell) becomes involved in bootlegging.
- In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
- Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
- The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
- The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
- Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.
- A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.
- Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.
- A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
- Songwriter and Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern is unable to find immediate success in the U.S. He sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale.
- After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
- When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estate hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.
- When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
- Affluent Hennessey falls for Jessie who is married to good-for-nothing Eddie. To provide a better life for Jessie Hennessey wants to marry her, and Eddie even approves of the plan, hoping to profit from it financially.
- In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.
- Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
- A nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
- A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.
- The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
- John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because at his wedding years ago, his bride Moonyean was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, Moonyean's 5-year-old orphaned niece, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious--it was Kenneth's father Jeremy who killed Moonyean. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.
- A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.
- Lillian (Jean Harlow) relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man (Chester Morris).
- An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.
- The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.
- After winning a stud farm in lieu of gambling debts, bookie Duke Bradley turns an eye to the daughter of the now deceased gambler and her millionaire fiancée.
- Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia.
- Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.
- When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.