Ambitious young lawyer John Mason (James Stewart) cuts short his honeymoon with new wife Jane (Carole Lombard) when his curmudgeonly boss, Judge Doolittle (Charles Coburn), demands he return to work. Doolittle, who had wanted John to marry his daughter Eunice (Ruth Weston), gives the partnership John had been angling for to his daughter's new beau, Carter (Donald Briggs). But when tragedy strikes the young couple, John finds he must beg his recalcitrant boss for the money to save the day.
When ambitious wedding planner Meg Mooreland is assigned the task of being in charge of her best friend Ellie's upcoming wedding, she has no idea a series of misevents will end up giving Ellie cold feet at the last minute. Together with her college nemesis and best man Tyler, they must team up to...
Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay (Frank Puglia), Ronnie finds himself agreeing.
An embittered old mariner and an unwanted young orphan form an unlikely bond building a boat.
