两个女人，有着相似的经历，甚至是相似的心计，展开了为求成名的争夺战。

维尔玛（凯瑟琳•泽塔-琼斯 Catherine Zeta-Jones饰）是一个夜总会舞女，名气不大。因为一怒之下枪杀了出轨丈夫而被关进大牢。比利（理查德•基尔Richard Gere饰）是当地一个靠打谋杀案官司而提升知名度的律师，他受理了这桩案件，心中有着自己的打算。他借助媒体炒作维尔玛的案子，一方面维尔玛瞬间成为红人，而他自己也声名大振。

然而洛克茜（芮妮·齐薇格 Renée Zellweger 饰）的案件却让比利转移了注意力。梦想成为歌星的洛克茜也是因为怒杀男友而身负罪名，比利决定要把她包装成楚楚可怜的受害者，令媒体更疯狂的大肆报道。

维尔玛觉察形势不妙，为了成名，她跟洛克茜之间的斗法不可避免的开始了。

故事发生在上世纪20年代，美丽善良的乡下姑娘蜜莉（朱丽·安德鲁斯 Julie Andrews 饰）离开了故乡，只身一人前往大都市纽约，想要在这里施展自己的抱负，哪知道现实是如此的残酷，一连串的挫折当头浇了她一身的冷水。最终，蜜莉成为了一名打字员，并且爱上了自己风流倜傥的老板。一次偶然中，蜜莉邂逅了名为吉米（詹姆斯·福克斯 James Fox 饰）的男孩，两人刚开始的相处并不愉快，甚至可以用交恶来形容，但随着时间的推移，他们都发现了隐藏在彼此灵魂深处美好的品质，并且被其吸引。多萝西（玛丽·泰勒·摩尔 Mary Tyler Moore 饰）是蜜莉在城里最好的朋友，在蜜莉和吉米周旋的同事，她也遇见了自己的爱情。

悉尼上世纪20年代一个叫IRIS的女子与一个拳击俱乐部老板和年轻拳击手之间的三角恋情

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.

A jeremiad against intemperance, jazz music, and abortion, set on a train filled with unrepentant sinners hurtling toward damnation.

When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)

FOR MY SISTERS is a movie about black culture or rather: black women, specifially: a movie about black singers. Alberta Hunter, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Nina Simone. They are the four "Big Sisters", singer Carole Alston follows through to the age of jazz. Alston, "a voice as dark and sweet as molasses", as described by the Financial Times, was born in Washington, DC and has been living in Vienna for almost 30 years. She is sure: "Those four icons help you explain what jazz is and even the history of jazz right along."

Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel clerk to marry her in name only, and then get a divorce, but he refuses to because he is in love with her. Her cousin then brings in another clerk and Ann now has two men on her hands. Ann now wants to marry the first clerk, having discovered she also loves him, but the aunts object. She then hires two gigolos to charm her aunts into a compromising situation.

Mrs. Katherine Manners loves her three grown daughters who are in boarding school. When she plans a party for them at home, they phone from the school that they cannot come because they are too busy. But she hears the sounds of a party in the background, so she goes to the school where she finds her daughters with young men. She is told that two of the daughters plan to be married, while the third plans to marry Grantland Dobbs as soon as he gets a divorce, and the mother is frightened by this announcement. She goes abroad and returns with a man, gets an apartment at a wealthy center, and lives with him. Her daughters are shocked when the mother entertains guests at drinking parties. When Mrs. Manners proves to her daughters that their fiancées are not respectable, she reveals to them that she was acting a part just to prove to them that she was right about their chosen mates. She reveals that the man she was living with was her cousin.