An engineer (John Wayne) woos the daughter (Laraine Day) of a tycoon (Cedric Hardwicke) who has hired him to build a railroad in the Andes.

A farmer (Edward G. Robinson) strikes Colorado silver, enters politics and leaves his wife (Aline MacMahon) for a blonde (Bebe Daniels).

A young Midwesterner (Paul Muni) becomes a meat tycoon with a socialite wife (Mary Astor).

Texas wildcatters (Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy) hit oil together, then fight after one marries the other's sweetheart (Claudette Colbert).

A disfigured veteran (Robert Young) and his homely bride (Dorothy McGuire) look beautiful to each other in a seaside cottage.

A Frenchwoman's (Greer Garson) husband (Robert Mitchum), thought to be dead, returns from war and finds her in love with one (Richard Hart) of his comrades.

A lost aviator's (George Brent) socialite wife (Bette Davis) makes a deal with a pianist (Mary Astor) having his baby.

An amnesiac World War I British veteran (Ronald Colman) marries a chorus girl (Greer Garson), then forgets her.

A young Englishwoman (Wendy Hiller) aims to marry a tycoon but finds love with a naval officer (Roger Livesey) instead.

An heiress (Bette Davis) with only months to live embarks on a social whirl, then marries her doctor (George Brent).

Lured by the glamour of the stage, two professional baseball players turn in their uniforms for careers in vaudeville.

An eccentric ballplayer known for his unorthodox pitching style finds major-league trouble with a girl and gangsters.

Young players try out for the founder (Edward G. Robinson) of the New York Giants Florida training camp.

Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) leads the New York baseball team for years and then, slowly dying, retires with a stadium farewell.