Handbook for a Privileged European Woman

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.

An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.