这是一部真实的电影，真实展现了日军偷袭珍珠港的历史。美军插手太平洋战场，日军最高将领山本五十六（山村聪 Sô Yamamura 饰）认为美军实力强大，应速战速战，不宜和美国人打长久战。于是，由他一手策划的偷袭珍珠港行动正式启动了。 虽然美军从此前截获的日军密电中得知了日军可能进行突袭的消息，但多数人都对此不屑一顾，密电的内容也没进行上报。即使在突袭当天美军一个士兵发现了雷达上不寻常的飞机群，美军将领仍然认为那是自己的飞机在执行巡逻任务。最终使得日军偷袭行动一举成功，美军损失惨重。山本五十六也成了美国人最大的眼中钉。

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

亨利（埃德蒙·戈温 Edmund Gwenn 饰）和女儿西尔维娅（凯瑟琳·赫本 Katharine Hepburn 饰）一起过着相依为命的日子。受生活所迫，亨利挪用了公款无法还债，东窗事发之后，他和女儿一起隐姓埋名踏上了逃亡之旅，途中，为了隐藏身份，西尔维娅女扮男装，易名赛尔维斯特。 在逃亡途中，亨利和西尔维娅结识了名为吉米（加里·格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）的男子，吉米也是一个骗子，气味相投一拍即合的一行人结为了旅伴。之后，提尔特（娜塔丽·帕蕾 Natalie Paley 饰）也加入了他们的行列，好笑的是，虽然朝夕相处，但没有一个人能够识破西尔维娅的伪装，直到一位名为迈克尔（布赖恩·艾亨 Brian Aherne 饰）的艺术家出现了。

朱妮（洛丽泰·扬 Loretta Young 饰）是美国最著名的“老姑娘”，一次偶然中，她和一位名叫提摩西（雷·米兰德 Ray Milland 饰）的男子搭乘同一辆车回城，没想到被记者拍到了，记者将他两误认为了夫妻，在报纸上大肆报道，很快便引起了轰动。 朱妮和提摩西发现，这一误会反而给他们带来了意料之外的福利，于是决定假扮夫妻维持这个谎言，可是，知道他们真正的生活在一起后才发现，两个人无论是生活习惯还是个性上都矛盾多多，在一次又一次的摩擦和争吵中，朱妮和提摩西都感到对方令自己难以忍受，可如今他们早已骑虎难下，两人该如何处理这段斩不断理还乱的关系呢？

凯瑟琳（洛丽泰·扬 Loretta Young 饰）出生在一个平凡的农户家中，为了能够走进更高一层的阶级中去，凯瑟琳决定前往大城市学习医务护理以便成为一名护士。然而，梦想刚刚扬帆起航便遭遇了海啸，凯瑟琳的全部积蓄都被骗子骗走，她甚至要面临流落街头的悲惨命运。幸运的是，凯瑟琳看到了一则招聘广告，年轻的议员格兰（约瑟夫·科顿 Joseph Cotten 饰）正在为他的豪宅雇佣一名女佣，就这样，凯瑟琳去应聘了。 聪明可爱的凯瑟琳很快就赢得了格兰家人的信赖，她的出现给这幢死气沉沉的大房子带来了一丝快乐的意味。不仅如此，格兰也渐渐爱上了这个古灵精怪又诚实肯干的姑娘。

San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong must execute his boyhood friend Sun. Sun knew his time was up and wrote out his will just prior to Wong showing up at his door. When Sun realizes Wong is there to kill me he tries to set his friend's mind at ease by telling him he is the beneficiary of all Sun's worldly possessions and convinces Wong to promise to take care of Sun's young daughter, Toya San who Sun has bequeathed to become his wife. Years later, when she becomes of age, she marries Wong, now a powerful figure, though she loves evil Harry. When Wong learns Toya will be happier with Harry he allows them to leave. Still later Wong learns that Harry has been deported and since Toya could not prove she was married to someone else she too was deported to China. When Wong learns of this, he goes after them.

Shortly before he is to wed, millionaire John Willis is visited by Dr. Harry S. Blair, a psychiatrist who informs him that years before he was married to Nancy, John's wife-to-be, and warns him that she is mentally unbalanced. Blair then relates the following story: After a whirlwind romance in Florida, Blair marries Nancy and starts a psychiatric practice in New York. One day, artist Norman Clyde comes to his office and tells him that an innocent man is about to be executed in Sing Sing Prison and that Nancy is the cause of his unjust incarceration. A distraught Clyde then explains himself to a curious Blair: Three years before, Clyde meets Nancy, whose maiden name was Monks, when she enrolls in his art class. The moody Clyde soon falls in love with Nancy's honest charm and beauty. Nancy, a secretary, introduces Clyde to her boss, millionaire Andrew Bonner, and persuades Bonner to showcase Clyde's paintings at one of his private showings. To Nancy's delight, Clyde's painting, a depiction of the tragic figure Cassandra for which she modeled, wins first prize at the showing. The evening is perfect until an expensive bracelet is stolen from a guest, and Clyde later finds it in Nancy's purse. After Clyde confronts a confused Nancy about the theft, she relates the following story to explain her behavior: As a young girl, Nancy lives with her housekeeper mother in the lavish Willis home and plays with Karen, the Willises' little daughter. Although Karen wants to invite Nancy to her upcoming birthday party, Mrs. Willis refuses to allow the lower-class Nancy to attend. A true friend, Karen promises to give Nancy one of the pins her guests are receiving. When Karen realizes there are no extra pins, however, she offers Nancy the beautiful locket she has just received from her mother. Nancy's subsequent joy is soon crushed when Mrs. Willis demands that she return the locket. Later, the locket is discovered missing, and Nancy is accused of theft. Although Nancy's mother soon finds the locket in Karen's dress, Mrs. Willis refuses to believe Nancy and forces her to "confess." The adult Nancy then admits to Clyde that this childhood humiliation caused her unconscious desire to steal the bracelet at the party. After a forgiving Clyde returns the bracelet anonymously, he and Nancy continue their romance until the next party at the Bonners'. Suspecting that the absent Nancy is spending the evening in Bonner's arms, Clyde leaves the party to look for her and sees her exiting Mrs. Bonner's bedroom just after two gunshots are fired. Bonner is found murdered, and Mrs. Bonner's diamond necklace, stolen. Although Nancy and Clyde are questioned, valet Myron Dexter is eventually found guilty and is sentenced to die. Clyde, however, strongly suspects Nancy, but she angrily maintains her innocence and leaves for Florida. Back in his office, Blair defends Nancy to Clyde but invites him to his house that evening. When confronted, Nancy denies everything and tells Blair that Clyde is merely jealous. The next day, Dexter is executed, and a guilt-ridden Clyde jumps from Blair's office window to his death. To avoid scandal, Blair and Nancy move to England, and after World War II breaks out, Blair volunteers his medical services, while Nancy becomes an ambulance driver. Expressing concern over Blair's health, Nancy insists that they take a vacation at Lord and Lady Wyndham's manor house. Just as they are leaving, Blair learns that one of Lady Wyndham's valuable jewels has been stolen. Blair suspects Nancy but is unable to prove anything until a bomb destroys their flat and reveals her cache of stolen jewels. Although confronted directly, Nancy continues to deny any guilt and divorces Blair after he suffers a nervous breakdown. Back in John's study, Blair, like Clyde before him, tries to convince John to abandon Nancy, who now uses the name Patton. John, however, believes Nancy when she tells him that Blair is still suffering from his breakdown. Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics. As Nancy is later taken away to an institution, John sadly realizes the truth of Blair's story, but determines to see Nancy through her crisis.

一位报社编辑每晚会在广播节目中讲一些报纸故事，这次他讲的故事是：一位警探，虽然深爱着妻子和儿子，却和一个交际花有染。一天他俩将车停在偏远的路边，正巧目击了一起谋杀案。警探由于做贼心虚，没有去抓杀人嫌犯，也没有报警。后来，警局让他负责这个案子，她发现他只有自己直面作证，才能抓住杀人嫌犯，也才能不然无辜的人蒙冤。

卡洛琳·班德（Hope Lange）是一个刚毕业不久、在纽约打拼的女大学生，她进入费边出版公司担任秘书职位，并在那里认识了同样身为秘书的格雷格·亚当斯（Suzy Parker）和阿普里尔·莫里森（Diane Baker），格雷格和阿普里尔都很喜欢卡洛琳，于是邀请卡洛琳搬进她们的公寓，三个女孩就这样生活在了一起。卡洛琳的上司阿曼达·法罗（Joan Crawford）因为怀疑卡洛琳企图取代她的位置，所以一直百般刁难卡洛琳，然而卡洛琳自己却计划男友艾迪·哈里斯（Brett Halsey）一从欧洲回来便与其成婚，然后从公司辞职彻底投入家庭主妇的生活，但天不遂人愿的是艾迪在欧洲与其他女人成婚，伤心不已的卡洛琳只好全心投入工作之中，她和编辑迈克·莱斯（Stephen Boyd）的感情也因此变得越发复杂。阿普里尔是个天真单纯的女孩，刚一入公司就遭到了上司沙利马尔先生(Brian Aherne)的性骚扰，但却反而与其成为朋友，后来偶然间她认识了富二代德克斯特·基（Robert Evans）并与其交往，她幻想着与之成家立业却未料到自己所托非人。格雷格一直努力想要成为一个女演员，她偶然认识了导演戴维·塞维奇（Louis Jourdan）并与之谈起恋爱，有了塞维奇的帮助她以为自己已经可以全心追求演艺事业便放弃了秘书的工作，却未想到厄运已经就此埋下祸根。