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Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her. With her help, he breaks through as a composer in Paris and becomes a famous man overnight. Now Constantia may have lost him, but the world of music has won him.

A film actress falls for an extra on her set, he turns out to be a prince.

On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War: Eddie, a Broadway star, marries Helen and almost immediately goes to the front. Gassed while saving the life of a German soldier (Hummel), Eddie cannot find work when he returns. Helen finds a job, and Eddie grows more despondent. One day he finds Helen in Hummel's arms, and in his rage Eddie shoots the man. The trial proceeds with the revelation by Defense Attorney Burke, Eddie's wartime commander, of Helen's secret: she pretended to be single so as to get work; Hummel, who was searching for Eddie, really loved Helen and was ignorant of her relationship with Eddie. The jury finds Eddie not guilty.

Fréderic Chopin is in love with his neighbor Constantia, but leaves her to go to Paris. George Sand notices him and launches the brilliant composer. Constantia comes to join him but quickly understands that he loves George Sand and steps aside to let their love live.

A composer, inspired by a magazine photo of a young woman, lands a job as a butler in her family's Riviera villa to find out more.

To get her young mother to pay more attention to the husband as well as the children, an 18 year old stages her own kidnapping.