Den underskønne showgirl Miss Lorelei Lee lever efter mottoet "Diamonds are a girl's best friend". Som en naturlig følge stiger hun om bord på båden fra New York til Paris med den hensigt at gifte sig med millionæren Gus Esmond. Undervejs forelsker hendes veninde, Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell), sig i en fattig privatdetektiv, der er hyret af Esmonds far til at afsløre, hvorvidt Miss Lee bare er ude efter pengene. I henhold til sin livsfilosofi bestemmer Miss Lee sig for at forpurre forelskelsen og føre Dorothy sammen med diamanthandleren Sir Francis Beekman. Det kommer der mange forviklinger ud af.
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
A revue troupe arrives in Puente San Gil, a small town, where they are received with hostility and contempt by the more conservative inhabitants.
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't complain: business is good and he has plenty of guests. For exmple, there's Theo Muller with his revue troupe. For reasons of "sound", Muller calls himself "Miller", which, of course, causes more confusion. His daughter, the beautiful Evelyn, is confused with Mabel Miller, who has come to the hotel on a mission for her filthy rich father ... namely, to estimate the worth of the castle.
Bosom buddies BeV StroganoV, Ovo Maltine, Ichgola Androgyn and Tima die Göttliche are four Berlin drag queens who met in the mid 1980s. These four queens became Germany’s most popular drag performers and have been busy fertilizing the German cultural scene. Besides being performers, they are also political activists – in AIDS awareness, anti-gay violence, the sex workers movement and the struggle against the extreme right and racism. The film tells their story.