Den underskønne showgirl Miss Lorelei Lee lever efter mottoet "Diamonds are a girl's best friend". Som en naturlig følge stiger hun om bord på båden fra New York til Paris med den hensigt at gifte sig med millionæren Gus Esmond. Undervejs forelsker hendes veninde, Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell), sig i en fattig privatdetektiv, der er hyret af Esmonds far til at afsløre, hvorvidt Miss Lee bare er ude efter pengene. I henhold til sin livsfilosofi bestemmer Miss Lee sig for at forpurre forelskelsen og føre Dorothy sammen med diamanthandleren Sir Francis Beekman. Det kommer der mange forviklinger ud af.
Lucky Jackson kommer til byen med sin bil på slæb – bogstaveligt talt. For at kunne deltage i det allerførste Las Vegas Grand Prix må han skaffe penge nok til at købe en ny motor. Det lykkes ham at skaffe pengene, men han mister dem igen, da hotellets svømmeinstruktør distraherer ham. Skal Lucky tage hjem med halen mellem benene, eller kan lykken stadigt nå at vende?
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to dancehall girls to try to thwart the plan. But the railroad workers, led by a female sharpshooter and an ambitious salesman, prove tough customers.
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer. Written by Tony Fontana
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.