Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But…

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man’s stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart…