本片的故事發生在兩次世界大戰之間的和平年代，柏林的一家大飯店內。本片的主要角色有五個，男爵、舞女、速記員、企業家以及一位快死的病人。男爵雖然出手闊綽，但實際上他已經破產了，為了還債他夥同一夥強盜偷取珠寶。結果他又愛上失意的舞蹈演員，後者受他影響重新有了自信與靈感。企業家的速記員因為缺錢而打算向企業家賣身求榮，引起了男爵的注意。最後，男爵把速記員介紹給了一位病人。此人知道自己將要不久於人世，於是取出了自己所有的存款打算揮霍一空。
軍火商卡比為了賺取更多的錢﹐決定在某住宅區購置一片土地﹐興建廠房。這件事將破壞周圍居民生活的安寧﹐因此遭到萬達霍夫家族的強烈反對。 萬達霍夫家人口眾多﹐脾氣古怪﹐個個迥異不同。萬達霍夫思想頑固﹐主張拒付聯邦稅收；其女兒貝尼喜歡冒充小說家﹐跟丈夫在地下室裡玩弄焰火；孫女艾麗熱衷芭蕾﹐連家也成了舞場﹐不停地跳；艾麗的丈夫只會演奏木琴。唯有萬達霍夫的次女愛麗絲最正經﹐她擔任卡比的公司里的秘書﹐跟卡比的兒子、副經理托尼談戀愛﹐感情甚深。 有一天﹐托尼訪問萬達霍夫家﹐一進門﹐卻見男女老少跳跳蹦蹦﹐載歌載舞﹐不覺大吃一驚。但他漸漸被萬達霍夫一家快樂的氣氛所熏陶﹐興致勃勃地跟隨他們一起歡鬧﹐接著﹐這也影響了他的父親﹐卡比學會了吹笛作樂﹐而且處世態度發生變化﹐放棄了原先的打算﹐成為一位慈善家。
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the demands on her skills. Even when she stays late, she cannot catch up with all of the work. But then a man comes into the office to demonstrate the many advantages of the Edison System, his company's new business phonograph.
Billy Brooks, a lawyer, sets out to get a divorce for a client by framing him in a compromising situation. But the scheme goes askew when the client's wife gets a job as Billy's new stenographer and he, not knowing who she is, selects her as the correspondent to frame her own husband.