When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, returns from the Korean War with new ideas about human rights, believing that the quest for wealth is the cause of the world's difficulties.

Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by killing the loved ones of the passengers on the flight.

After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.

A down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent movie star, but experiences tragedy in his personal life. May Marley is an alcoholic friend who Buddy tries to help.

Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son Johnny aspires to be a jet pilot. However, his sales manager, Paul Fletcher, does wish to take over the business.

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.