艾斯特(珍妮·盖诺 Janet Gaynor 饰)是怀揣着成名的梦想,刚刚步入好莱坞发展的年轻女演员,在大明星诺曼(弗雷德里克·马奇 Fredric March 饰)举办的慈善演出中,艾斯特大放异彩,成为了万众瞩目的焦点,而她和诺曼之间也相互吸引,渐渐产生了感情,就这样,两人走到了一起。
诺曼用自己的人脉帮助艾斯特创造了一些演出机会,而艾斯特本身就是一个悟性非常高的女孩,拥有绝佳的表演天赋,没过多久,她就成为了冉冉升起的新星,未来可期,前途无量。但相对的,艾斯特的成名反衬出了诺曼的过气,他酗酒的毛病让他的星途屡遭滑铁卢。虽然妻子的优秀令诺曼感到自豪,但沮丧和挫败感亦在无时不刻的折磨着他。
故事发生在美国内战结束后,当时随着铁路的兴建。大量移民涌向西部淘金,由于修筑铁路,令沿线大批农民失去家园。杰西与法兰克·吉姆斯带领一伙破产农民专门抢劫火车,以表达他们对修筑铁路的不满,并与政府抗争。但是起初单纯的动机渐渐被贪婪及暴力所取代。而杰西亦被手下的叛徒所杀……
Thomas P. Manning, businessman and chess expert, mysteriously shot in a locked room, dies clutching some chess pieces. Police are baffled, and finally abandon the case. Six months later, victim's daughter Leah Manning, stung by a scurrilous book about the case, enlists the aid of Charlie Chan and Number 3 Son. Additional murders follow, leading to a climactic confrontation in a...
TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical concerning a mad scientist who enlists a rival reporter and a group of gangsters to push the Man of Steel into a mental breakdown.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.