霍莉（希拉里•斯万克 饰）与盖里（杰拉德•巴特勒 饰）深爱彼此，虽然有时候他们会有争吵，可是这些都是他们生活中的情趣。霍莉感觉自己已经找到了最爱，盖里却在他们婚后罹患脑癌并逝世了。自此，霍莉便生活在失去挚爱的痛苦中。　　她感觉丈夫并没有就此离开，她还能在家中感受到盖里的气息。她把自己困在家中，两位好友丹尼丝（莉莎•库卓 饰）、莎拉及霍莉的母亲还有母亲酒吧里的酒保丹尼尔都十分担心她。就在她三十岁生日的那天开始，她便不断收到由盖里给她寄来的信，每封信的最后都加上一句“我爱你”的附注。盖里的信为霍莉的生活注入了力量，她一步步的向前走，但事实上盖里已经死去了，她终究要自己独自生活。　　丹尼丝怀孕了，莎拉即将要结婚，她们两个都生活在幸福当中，霍莉突感落寞。她又开始躲避众人，自认识霍莉后丹尼尔一直都陪在霍莉身边，丹尼尔向霍莉表达自己的爱意。霍莉第一次跑到母亲怀里痛哭，她也知道了盖里的信原来一直由母亲代寄。最后一封信就要拆开，霍莉会否得到重生呢？

　　痴情的神枪手 Jackie（Mia Farrow 饰）将贫穷的未婚夫 Simon Doyle（Simon MacCorkindale 饰）介绍到朋友 Linnet Ridgeway（Lois Chiles 饰）的庄园工作。谁知不久后 Simon 与 Linnet 结了婚，两人还如胶似漆地去埃及度蜜月。愤怒的 Jackie 跟到埃及，时时骚扰纠缠。在尼罗河游船上，Linnet 发现除了 Jackie 之外，船上很多游客都不怀好意。上岸参观卡纳克神庙时，一块巨石从高高的柱子上掉落，下面的 Simon 与 Linnet 差点丧命。可是，针对 Linnet 的谋杀并未停止。Linnet 躲过了一劫，却没躲过第二劫。除了 Linnet 惨死床上，Linnet 的女仆 Louise（Jane Birkin 饰）、声称目击到凶手的 Salome Otterbourne 夫人（Angela Lansbury 饰）都被灭口。经过调查，侦探 Hercule Poirot（Peter Ustinov 饰）发现，除了 Jackie 和 Simon，几乎每个游客都有充分的作案动机和时间。 那么，凶手究竟是谁？他是如何实施犯罪的？而之前推下巨石的又是谁？

　　During a cross-country lecture tour, notoriously acerbic radio personality Sheridan Whiteside slips on the icy steps of the house of the Stanleys, a prominent Ohio family, and is forced to recuperate in their home during the Christmas holidays. The overbearing, self-centered celebrity soon comes to dominate the lives of the residents and everyone else who enters the household. He encourages young adults Richard and June Stanley to pursue their dreams, much to the dismay of their conventional father Ernest.　　Meanwhile, Whiteside's spinster assistant Maggie Cutler finds herself attracted to local newspaperman Bert Jefferson. When she reads Bert's play, she is so impressed she asks Whiteside to show it to his contacts, and then announces she will quit his employment and marry Bert. However, her boss is loath to lose such an efficient aide and does his best to sabotage the blossoming romance...

　　每年，伯爵夫人都会邀请一个贫穷的意大利家庭打牌。

　　

　　Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.

　　商业艺术家海伦鲍尔认为婚姻会扼杀浪漫。她和广告作家唐·彼得森住在一起。他说服她嫁给他。后来他继续与客户佩吉·史密斯合作；海伦与唐的竞争对手尼克·马尔文合作。最后，这对夫妇同意再给婚姻一次机会。

　　Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland Coulter arrested. She finds a bunch of "not guilty" ballots and publishes the wrong story; he eavesdrops on the jury and gets the correct verdict. After being fired she gets a confession from the real killer and gets Coulter released.

　　贝蒂·戴维丝官司败诉重回华纳，却争取到一定范围内选角权利。此时华纳将制片重责交给新作风的赫尔·华和斯，开始“高成本、精制作”的路线。贝蒂在此情况下感到如鱼得水，很快演出了另一部再度获得金像奖最佳女主角奖的代表作《红衫泪痕》：以南北战争时期美国南方为背景，描述一名个性倔强的美女在任性地失去她的男友之后，再想尽办法将已经找为有妇之夫的他抢回来。此片在划时代的《乱世佳人》出现之前年面世受到好评。贝蒂跟导演威廉·怀勒连续合作了三部影片，确立了贝蒂的超级女星地位。事实上1937年起，贝薷连续十年赢得“票房皇后”的美誉，被推为“美国国影坛第一夫人”，这种殊荣在影坛上相当罕见。假如对贝蒂的银幕形象细心观察，可发现她鲜少扮演善待其它女人的角色，通常是跟别人怨对、抗争，甚至发生激烈的争执，充份显示出“同性相斥”的强烈排挤色彩。同时，贝蒂的角色也证明了女人一样可以强悍无情、咄咄逼人，甚至可以剥夺了一向被视为男性的特权，使男人反要吃女人的亏，可说是首位“女性电影”的诠释者。

　　夏洛特（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）已经能算得上是一个老姑娘了，她梳着呆板的发型，穿着保守的服装，性格也古里古怪的，更糟糕的是，她似乎还染上了酗酒的坏毛病。在家人的建议之下，夏洛特决定踏上治疗心灵的旅途，登上了驶往远方的游轮。　　在游轮上，夏洛特邂逅了名为杰瑞（保罗·亨雷德 Paul Henreid 饰）的男子，并且在误打误撞之中和杰瑞的女儿结下了深厚的友谊。很快，夏洛特就感到自己坠入了情网之中，然而，此时的杰瑞并不是自由身，他有这一段无法结束的婚姻。心碎的夏洛特选择了离开，而夏洛特的母亲也在不久之后撒手人寰。