Edmund Goulding

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.

A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns ten years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Brothers Monte and Roy leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Roy loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in yet another man's arms.

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.

In separate stories, five couples learn that they are not legally married.

Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.

The daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor (Montagu Love) is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband (Charles Boyer), a handsome composer.

Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other's boyfriend begins to fall for her.

Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party for him so that he might use the lions...