A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.