Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...

"Set in the 1930s Depression era during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, [the film] covers three days in the lives of a trio of high-flying circus performers, headlined by former WWII fighter-pilot hero Roger Shumann and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne. Romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show"--Container.

An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...

Barbara makes the mistake of marrying an unrepentant gambler. When his gambling debts become too cumbersome, she turns to a wealthy suitor.

In this woman-in-peril suspense film, set in London, the sanity of a newlywed heiress comes into question when, after a number of unwitnessed near-fatal accidents and life-threatening phone calls, she claims to be the target of a stalker. As time passes and her reports of more calls and a visit from a mysterious stranger nobody else sees are met with skepticism by everybody, the woman begins to unravel and becomes increasingly paranoid, suspecting...

Marlene Dietrich plays the notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily, who has been jilted by Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook). During the Chinese civil war, the couple meet on a train which is attacked by Chinese rebels. Dietrich becomes involved with a rebel leader in order to save the man she still loves.

Andre Morestan is the owner of a bicycle shop in Paris, serving jury duty for the first time. When Natalie Roguin, a homeless girl accused of murder, is found innocent, Andre feels sorry and invites her into his home. Andre's son, Pierre, immediately becomes smitten with Natalie and starts committing small crimes to aid in the couple₂s engagement, causing Andre to wonder if Natalie isn't all that innocent in the first place.

The gilded lily: Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn, meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland), an English nobleman visiting America. The bride comes home: A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Family...

Lynn Markham, a recent widow, moves into a beach house where the former owner fell to her death from the balcony. What seemed like an accident turns to suspicion of murder as Lynn finds herself drawn into a torrid affair with a handsome beachcomber who may be harboring a sinister secret.

"While at West Point, Denton rebuffs Evelyn Palmer who shows up later as the wife of his commanding officer in Arizona. When he takes a shine to her sister Bonita, Evelyn accuses him of making illicit advances toward her while the Colonel's away. " -- IMDB.