Fast-talking auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is content with his Second Avenue existence selling pawned goods for highly inflated prices. One day, a Fifth Avenue society lady picks up a priceless belt buckle for a song at Cutler's shop. Cutler tries to get his cut of the true price, but she makes a counter-offer of an expensive auction house and a scheme to auction off a house full...
Aeronautical engineer Ken Gordon and his faithful mechanic Mac are devoted to developing technology that will enable pilots to safely fly blind during adverse weather conditions. An irresponsible newsman, Nick Williams, publishes a premature story about a planned long distance flight Gordon hopes will prove his theories. Because of Williams, he loses funding but is introduced t...
萨姆(斯宾塞·屈塞 Spencer Tracy 饰)是一名体育新闻记者,最近,他被一个女人给惹恼了,她就是同样身为记者的苔丝(凯瑟琳·赫本 Katharine Hepburn 饰)。苔丝总是在自己的专栏里抱怨体育运动是如此的无聊,而萨姆则在自己的专栏里和她针锋相对。
为了证明体育运动的魅力,萨姆和苔丝相约去看一场棒球比赛。毫不令人意外的,棒球赛结束之后,萨姆和苔丝双双坠入了情网。然而,两人的婚后生活却并不是风平浪静,截然不同的个性让他们在很多的琐事上都会爆发争吵。苔丝被选为了“时代女强人”,这让萨姆感到非常的吃醋,而为了让萨姆重新开心起来,苔丝做了一系列的努力却纷纷以失败收场。