When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

A director is forced to work with his ex-wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film. But the night before the first day of shooting, he develops a case of psychosomatic blindness.

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

An insurance investigator and an efficency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.

Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.

In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.

An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.