Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for another newspaper, and they get married after a whirlwind romance. The romance begins to wane nearly as fast as it blossomed but, directly and indirectly, is salvaged by Toby's wri...
At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having Nazi ties. As country after country falls to the Nazis, O'Tool follows O'Hara across Europe. At first he is after a story, but he gradually ...
John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Ban...
Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. His Yankee Clippers band is hired to open the new Hotel Atlantico in Rio and Roger offers to fly Belinha part way home. After a mechanical breakdown and force...
皮特(查尔斯·科本 Charles Coburn 饰)是一名大学教授,一天,他奉父亲之命,来到夜总会寻找风流成性的表弟凯斯(詹姆斯·埃利森 James Ellison 饰),哪知道却意外邂逅了夜总会的歌女弗兰西(金格尔·罗杰斯 Ginger Rogers 饰),两人一见钟情,在一夜贪欢之后,两人结为了夫妻。
激情退却后,皮特开始为自己的冲动之举担忧起来,父亲是一个思想非常顽固的男人,绝对不会接受弗兰西歌女的身份,不仅如此,父亲还早已经为他找到了门当户对的姑娘海伦(弗朗西丝·默瑟 Frances Mercer 饰)做他未来的妻子。皮特屡屡想要向父亲坦白自己和弗兰西的关系,却屡屡遭遇失败,还让父亲和弗兰西之间的关系越来越差。
约翰(弗雷德·阿斯泰尔 Fred Astaire 饰)是一名极富才华的舞蹈家,歌手卡德(维克托·摩尔 Victor Moore 饰)是约翰最好的朋友兼搭档,两人之间的友谊十分深厚。约翰一心想要迎娶自己的青梅竹马玛格丽特(Betty Furness 饰),但卡德却并不看好这桩婚事。为了搅黄约翰的婚礼,卡德找到了各种借口拖延时间,导致约翰最终错过了结婚典礼。愤怒玛格丽特和父亲要求约翰拿来两万五千美元,方可得到他们的原谅,无奈之下约翰只得踏上了筹钱的旅途。
约翰和卡德来到了纽约,在一场意外中邂逅了名为佩妮(金格尔·罗杰斯 Ginger Rogers 饰)的女子。一番波折之后,约翰发现佩妮是一名舞蹈教练,不仅如此,两人的节奏亦十分合拍,于是决定组成搭档。
碧翠丝(金格尔·罗杰斯 Ginger Rogers 饰)是一名已经过气的百老汇女明星,一次偶然中她邂逅了名为克劳恩(威廉·霍尔登 William Holden 饰)的作家。年轻气盛的克劳恩当着碧翠丝的面对她提出了诸多的批评,没想到这反而吸引了碧翠丝的注意,让她对其产生了好感。
碧翠丝的前夫哈里(保罗·道格拉斯 Paul Douglas 饰)是好莱坞知名的制片人,他于偶然之中读到了克劳恩所写的剧本,对其大加赞赏。碧翠丝和哈里找到了克劳恩,劝说他将故事里原本十九岁的女主角年龄改成二十九岁,以方便碧翠丝出演这个角色,最终克劳恩妥协了。莎莉(帕特·克劳蕾 Pat Crowley 饰)是初出茅庐的女演员,在读了克劳恩的剧本之后,她认为自己才是出演女主角的不二人选。