סאטירה של פליני המתארת את סיפורם של צמד חקייני מפורסמים מזדקנים - אמליה בונטי (ג'ולייטה מאסינה) ופיפו בוטיצ'לה (מרצ'לו מסטרויאני). עד שדרכיהם נפרדו, בנו השניים את הקריירה שלהם על מופע ריקוד שבו הם מחקים את ג'ינג'ר רוג'רס ופרד אסטר. כשמציעים להם להקים לתחייה את מופעם בתוכנית טלוויזיה - הם מסכימים מיד, אך האם עדיין יש להם מה שדרוש

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.

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.

Space Case follows Bobbie Almond, a social outcast who has dreams to escape her small town life. She has a ticket to Mars! But when Bobbie's ticket to a new life gets stolen by her super Preppy sister, she's forced down a road of conformity, to be a part of the town's Beauty pageant! Will she conform? Or will she bail and follow her dreams!

'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.

An extremely passionate kathakali artiste falls in love with a mohiniyattam artiste and their blossoming affair gives rise to a new and unique form of art.