不久之前，安妮（凯瑟琳·赫本 Katharine Hepburn 饰）刚刚和丈夫麦克（罗伯特·米彻姆 Robert Mitchum 饰）携手步入婚礼的殿堂，新婚燕尔的幸福刚刚维持没多久，麦克的种种反常举动开始让安妮怀疑，他是否患有精神上的疾病，她甚至怀疑自己的性命会遭受麦克的威胁。
麦克的弟弟艾伦（罗伯特·泰勒 Robert Taylor 饰）来到了安妮的家中，家里出现的第三人缓和了紧张的气氛，但很快的，安妮就发现艾伦和麦克之间似乎有着无法调和的严重矛盾。艾伦死了，诸多的线索都将凶手指向了麦克，但是麦克所表现出来的无辜却又让安妮经不住开始怀疑起事件的真相来。
Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent (Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall), welcome to London Jimmy's 17-year-old daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee). Jane is from Jimmy's first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the step-mother she has never met. While visiting Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists. Difficulties range from Jane's apathy to being...
George Tracy and Charlie Sorel, both thirty-six years of age, are writers - a Paris novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, respectively - best friends, and partners in crime in skirt chasing. Charlie is shot dead aboard a yacht during a party by filmmaker Sir Leopold Sartori after he catches Charlie fooling around with his wife, Rusty, Charlie's body which falls overboard and whi...
Astronomer Bill Whitley is so preoccupied with the new comet he's discovered that his time at the observatory sometimes comes at the expense of his beautiful wife, Vicky. When the neglected spouse becomes influenced by an eccentric neighbor into believing in the power of astrology, she subscribes to a weekly horoscope from a phony seer, the appropriately named Margaret Sybill. ...
Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls in love with one of her clients, the playwright Jeffrey Moss, and is determined to meet him. The trouble is, on the phone to him, she always pretends to be an old woman whom he calls "Mom."
琪琪（莱斯利·卡伦 Leslie Caron 饰）是一个美丽天真的少女，自小被祖母抚养长大的她养成了自由又不羁的性格。祖母希望琪琪能够成为一位出入上流社会的淑女，为此，她将琪琪送往了她的姨妈家接受特殊的训练课程。在姨妈家，琪琪遇见了帅气多金的加斯东（路易斯·乔丹 Louis Jourdan 饰），在琪琪年幼的时候，他们早已相识，而此时的琪琪已然出落成为了亭亭玉立的模样，这让加斯东的内心荡漾起了涟漪。
祖母将加斯东对琪琪的感情全都看在了眼里，开始想方设法撮合两人。一番波折后，琪琪和加斯东终于两情相悦了，加斯东不仅送给琪琪珍贵的珠宝，还带着她出入各类上流社会的高档舞会。面对突如其来的荣宠，琪琪有些得意忘形，而她的所作所为没有逃过加斯东的双眼。
