简介：比夫（詹姆斯·贾克内 James Cagney 饰）和雨果（杰克·卡森 Jack Carson 饰）曾是感情十分要好的朋友，可是，两人共同爱上了名为维吉尼亚（丽塔·海华斯 Rita Hayworth 饰）的性感女郎。为了能够和维吉尼亚约会，雨果叫上了比夫，而维吉尼亚则带着自己的好友艾米（奥利维娅·德哈维兰 Olivia de Havilland 饰）。为了追求维吉尼亚，比夫几乎花光了自己的所有积蓄，可是，最终他得知，维吉尼亚已经和雨果私奔了。比夫崩溃了，艾米留在他的身边安慰和陪伴着他，久而久之，产生了感情的两人走到了一起。当雨果和比夫再见面之时，他已经成为了公司经理，可当雨果的公司因为贪污受贿而遭到指控时，比夫却成为了替罪羊。
简介：Gwen grows up with her romantic mother constantly telling her the story of her courtship and marriage to her father. Nick grows up with an alcoholic father who can't hold a job and whose family, as a result, is forced to move all the time. The two are shaped by this - Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself - as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, One Big Happy Family. Years later, it is the star of that show, now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always saying, I thought she was dead, Francesca Lanfield, who connects the two of them, after years of near-misses and almost encounters. Gwen is hired to ghost-write Francesca's autobiography, while Nick, becoming her lover, is the architect who is to design a building on Francesca's property. When Gwen decides to crusade to save Francesca's building, she writes letters to the newspaper which catches Nick's attention - and wins his heart.