故事发生在1844年的美国康涅狄格州，出生于贫困之家的米兰达（吉恩·蒂尔尼 Gene Tierney 饰）收到了表哥尼古拉斯（文森特·普莱斯 Vincent Price 饰）的来信，尼古拉斯邀请米兰达去他家，担任他的女儿凯瑟琳（康妮·马歇尔 Connie Marshall 饰）的家庭教师一职。在米兰达的心目中，尼古拉斯一家就是上流社会生活的缩影，于是她愉快的接下了这份工作，动身启程了。
　　哪知道刚到宅邸没多久，米兰达就听到了有关这里的恐怖传说，不仅如此，不久之后，尼古拉斯的妻子乔安娜（薇薇安·奥斯本 Vivienne Osborne 饰）便离奇去世了。乔安娜去世当晚，尼古拉斯便向米兰达表露了爱意，吓得米兰达退避三舍。此时的她并不知道，自己早已经被卷入了一个可怕的诅咒之中。

　　贝蒂·戴维丝官司败诉重回华纳，却争取到一定范围内选角权利。此时华纳将制片重责交给新作风的赫尔·华和斯，开始“高成本、精制作”的路线。贝蒂在此情况下感到如鱼得水，很快演出了另一部再度获得金像奖最佳女主角奖的代表作《红衫泪痕》：以南北战争时期美国南方为背景，描述一名个性倔强的美女在任性地失去她的男友之后，再想尽办法将已经找为有妇之夫的他抢回来。此片在划时代的《乱世佳人》出现之前年面世受到好评。贝蒂跟导演威廉·怀勒连续合作了三部影片，确立了贝蒂的超级女星地位。事实上1937年起，贝薷连续十年赢得“票房皇后”的美誉，被推为“美国国影坛第一夫人”，这种殊荣在影坛上相当罕见。假如对贝蒂的银幕形象细心观察，可发现她鲜少扮演善待其它女人的角色，通常是跟别人怨对、抗争，甚至发生激烈的争执，充份显示出“同性相斥”的强烈排挤色彩。同时，贝蒂的角色也证明了女人一样可以强悍无情、咄咄逼人，甚至可以剥夺了一向被视为男性的特权，使男人反要吃女人的亏，可说是首位“女性电影”的诠释者。

　　精神病院的默奇逊院长即将退休，接手的是年轻有为的爱德华大夫（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）。医院里年轻漂亮的女医生彼特森（英格丽·褒曼 Ingrid Bergman 饰）和他相爱，然而竟发现眼前的爱人不是爱德华大夫，而真实的爱德华的秘书，还前来指出这个冒牌人士是杀害爱德华的凶手。
　　面对恋人扑朔迷离的身份，彼特森始终不相信他是杀人凶手，然而默奇逊院长却用精神分析法印证了“事实”。更为棘手的是，这个假爱德华也相信自己有罪，他甚至连自己是谁，经历过的事情也不知道。
　　彼特森对自己的判断非常坚持，她决定要帮他找出事件真相。在警察的追捕下，她带他逃到了心理分析教授的家中，展开了一联串精彩的心理分析过程，他童年的阴影和爱德华大夫被杀的真相渐渐浮出水面。

　　Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland Coulter arrested. She finds a bunch of "not guilty" ballots and publishes the wrong story; he eavesdrops on the jury and gets the correct verdict. After being fired she gets a confession from the real killer and gets Coulter released.

　　故事讲述美国钻石商卢卡斯(基努饰)去西伯利亚做生意时，与咖啡馆店主卡佳(安娜·乌拉鲁饰)坠入情网，然而事态却步入危险。

　　他与陌生年轻人做爱，只因为他们的声音如此熟悉，能唤起他对光的记忆：一个前摄影师的内心独白。

　　After a late-night cup of coffee, vaudevillians Jo Hayden and Harry Palmer sit at a piano and work a song. Moments later, Jo realises she's found exactly what she wasn't looking for: a partner. And with Judy Garland as Jo and Gene Kelly as Harry, the partnership isn't just ideal. It's a film fan's dream come true. Kelly debuts and Garland dazzles in this Busby Berkeley-directed tale of a song-and-dance pair who take on tank towns, tough times and World War I while struggling for show-biz success. A hit parade of era tunes paces the film, including the wowser "Ballin' the Jack" and the sweetly harmonized title tune. Bursting with vitality and old-fashioned charm, "For Me And My Gal" is for the ages.

　　Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
　　See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

　　故事发生在一个地处偏远的小镇之上，汤姆（Robert Milli 饰）的莫名失踪让警员约翰（唐纳德·萨瑟兰 Donald Sutherland 饰）百思不得其解，富有责任心和正义感的他决定追踪此案。汤姆在失踪前曾经和一位名叫丹尼尔斯（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰） 的应召女郎有着密切的联系，根据一封两人之间的情书，约翰来到了纽约。
　　在监视丹尼尔斯的过程中，约翰在这个神秘的女人身上发现了许多可疑之处，她似乎也正在追踪着什么人。之后，又一名受害人的出现让整个案件开始变得险恶起来，而随着调查的深入，一位名叫柯博尔（Charles Cioffi 饰）的男子浮出了水面，他是否就是约翰正在苦苦寻找的那个人呢？

　　鲍勃（洛克•哈德森 Rock Hudson 饰）是一个整日里游手好闲的花花公子。一次搭乘潜艇出海是，鲍勃遭遇了海难，警方带来了镇上的唯一一个人工呼吸器，救了鲍勃一名。但医院院长菲利普却在同时病发，因为没有呼吸器而死去了。得知 了这一消息，鲍勃感到十分内疚，他决定倾其所有来帮助菲利普的遗孀海伦（简•怀曼 Jane Wyman 饰）。
　　然而，菲利普的好意却意外的令海伦双目失明。鲍勃隐姓埋名陪伴在失明的海伦的身边，在不知道鲍勃的真实身份的情况下，海伦对鲍勃渐渐产生了好感。最终，鲍勃表明了身份希望海伦能够嫁给他，在得知了一切的真相后，海伦选择了离开。