Tells the story of the adventures of the resourceful Scheherazade. Newly married to Shahryar, a deranged monarch who murders his brides after the wedding night, Scheherazade manages to keep her head by entertaining her husband with exciting stories and always trailing off at the most infuriating...
American accountant Harry Mascaret made his fortune thanks to an investment and decides to offer himself a stay in Paris with his fiancée Dolly. A burlesque, Roaring-Twenties comedy ensues.
A man lives a normal family life during the day, but late evening he becomes a different person, taken to night-clubs and their attractions of songs and bohemia.
On a carnival evening in Nice, when Jeanne Olier is to be engaged to a certain Natahlie Rouhais, a mysterious woman in black enter the room and violently demands the young girl to renounce this marriage. Jeanne, shaken and afraid, runs away i despair. He is followed by the lady in black.
Diaz de Toledo, a South American refugee, finds a job in a luxury hotel with a cosmopolitan clientèle. . There he makes friends with the Parkers, a fabulously rich family and falls in love with Chela, the daughter. Unfortunately, the young woman is seduced by an adventurer, Lord Hampton, who...
Unsucessful writer Théodore Larue is mistakenly believed to be drowned during a vacation at the sea with his wife Lucie. The latter persuades him to play dead because the incident increases his popularity. Théodore pretends he is his brother Anselme. Trouble begins when the actual brother...
A wife uses the pretext, that her American husband refuses to kiss her on the lips, to divorce him. Later after she is remarried he tries in vain to win her back.
Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy,...
A beautiful woman falls in love with a tenor giving her singing lessons. The evening when she is to appear in public for the first time, the tenor is called back to his country where his daughter has just drowned. He loses his voice and his mind. The young woman finds him one day, dying.
