Skuespilleren Vincent Chase og hans tre bedste venner E, Turtle og Johnny Drama har for længst erobret Hollywood, og Vincent føler, at tiden er inde til at springe ud som instruktør. Hans tidligere agent Ari Gold er for nylig blevet chef for et stort filmselskab, og giver derfor Vincent lov til at instruere en kæmpe film. Opgaven viser sig hurtigt at være en udfordring for den mildest talt temperamentsfulde Ari, da Texaneren, der har finansieret store dele af filmen, pludseligt sender sin søn afsted til L.A. for at holde øje med sin investering.
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?