Performer Ken Murray first arrived in Hollywood in 1927 a relative unknown from his then hometown of Kingston, New York. Instead of sending postcards of Hollywood back to his family, he instead purchased a 16mm camera, filmed Hollywood stars - many he didn't even know at the time - and sent the resulting film back to his family. This movie is a compilation of much of that foota...
Princess Anne (Mary Astor) plans to run away with Freddie Granton (Anthony Bushell), the commoner secretary of her father, King Eric VIII (Lowell Sherman), once her domineering mother, Queen Martha (Nance O'Neil), has left for a vacation in America. Anne is therefore aghast when the Marquis of Birten (Alan Roscoe) brings news that he has negotiated her political marriage to Pri...
Josephine Evans (Mary Astor) and Professor Michael Kingsley (Herbert Marshall) are in a romantic relationship, something not approved of by Evan's two children. They try to disrupt the relationship with salacious incidents taken from their mother's fiction books, presenting them as true things their mother has done, hoping Kingsley would be displeased.
青年“何克”抱着不屈不挠的精神，日间在矿场做货车司机，晚间埋头写作。他和母亲“何太太”相依为命，家境贫寒，本来还有一座煤矿，但被几个有钱亲戚欺压，主权渐失，“何太太”竭力劝阻何克不要浪费时间在写作方面。
圣诞前夕，何克接到纽约来的长途电话，原来他的一本小说已被大出版商平斯看重，允予出版。何克兴奋地飞到纽约，他的自信使他预支到一份巨额的版税稿酬，平斯并派年轻貌美的女编辑珍妮为他整理原稿付样。他在珍妮寓所的顶楼租到一个小儿舒适的房间，当夜他参加纽约文化界的活动，在平斯太太芬妮的宴会中，他认识到许多圈内名流，包括一位有钱太太费黛。费黛的谈吐和风度迷惑了他，罗曼史的发生自是无可避免。
费黛赴欧洲期间，何克在珍妮密切关怀指导下处女作面世。费黛返纽约后，嫌何克住处简陋，使他不由自主搬到另一华丽寓所去。珍妮对他俩的关系看不过眼，转投入另外一家出版公司，该公司的老板...
