A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly appears, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.