In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.
Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon...
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageot, is mostly busy with his mistresses but comes to be worried with his young and outgoing daughter.
In a reversal of the usual situation, it is the wife, not the husband, who is the neglectful one. As hubby sits at home twiddling his thumbs, Jane starts her own prosperous business, becoming so absorbed that she has no time for anything else. Not unexpectedly, her husband begins keeping time with...
A man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge on her husband, he lands up consoling her in bed, and then consoling the mistress of the husband as well.
A father has two sons, the older one serious and hard-working, the younger one spendthrift and pleasure-seeking. The latter rejects his father's authority and leaves home. It is not long before he wastes all his fortune and falls into poverty. He repents and decides to return home. Despite his...
A young princess falls in love with the castle's young music teacher, Roger Fleuirot, but he is shy and does not dare to show his love for her. When the music teacher goes to Paris, the princess follows him and pretends to be her own twin sister, who works in a shoe shop. Nils Poppe plays the...
A bureaucrat, tax assessor, specialized in tax return and fraud, complains about his son-in-law's inactivity. He'd rather have thought twice before urging him to work...
Princess Isabelle is in love with the young man in charge of her library. But André is looking for a simple woman without money. He falls in love with a shopgirl who could be the Princess' sister. It's up to Isabelle come up with a scheme to find love...
A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
Librarian Roger Fleuriot is in love with princess Saint Labiche but doesn't dare admit it because of their different classes. The princess feels the same way and invents a twin sister that works in a shoe shop that she pretends to be in order to seduce him.
In the kingdom of Culrandia (a country that must border Ruritania) King Ottocar must give his daughter’s hand in marriage to the prince of another country. Bebè, tired of waiting for her fiancé, tracks him down in Paris and brings him back to Culrandia where they are eventually married.
