安妮·巴克斯特

百老汇资深女星玛戈·强尼（贝蒂·戴维斯BetteDavis饰）即便上了年纪，却仍风姿绰约，是百老汇炙手可热的殿堂级名角。成功的演艺生涯，光鲜亮丽的生活圈子，一切看起来都如此完美。直到她的剧作家朋友劳埃德·理查兹（休·马洛威HughMarlowe饰）和妻子卡伦（西莱斯特·霍姆CelesteHolm饰），把面目清秀、聪明怜俐的艾娃·哈林顿（安妮·巴克斯特AnneBaxter饰）介绍给她做跟班，玛戈才意识到这个潜心学艺进步飞快的姑娘对自己的威胁，不免起了戒心。与此同时，艾娃极力讨好大名鼎鼎的剧评家艾德逊·德威特（乔治·桑德斯GeorgeSanders饰），势要在百老汇找到自己的一席之地。\r本片荣获1951年第23届奥斯卡金像奖最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳男配角等6项大奖，14项奥斯卡提名。该片至今仍保持着荣获奥斯卡提名数量最高的纪录。影片故事先后于1970年被改编成百老汇音乐剧《Applause》，1973年还被拍成电视电影《Applause》。

1941年的北非战场，英德两军激战正酣，英军节节败退。布兰保下士（FranchotTone饰）被坦克遗落，蹒跚进入埃及人法瑞德的女王酒店，而几乎同时，德意联军指挥部进驻此处。布兰保乔装酒店服务生达沃斯伺机逃脱，意外发现隆美尔元帅居然近在咫尺，而他所假扮的达沃斯更是德军间谍，布兰保决定留下以便探听德军补给计划的“五墓行动”详情，同时也对酒店的法国女招待姆丝（AnneBaxter饰）产生情愫。不久女王酒店又迎来了一批英军俘虏，布兰保与对方取得联系并最终打探到“五墓行动”的真相，然而一直对姆丝有所企图的德军军官施威格（PetervanEyck饰）对他产生了怀疑，布兰保情报在手，却因姆丝要面对国家命运与个人情感的沉重考验。

20世纪初，Amberson家族在当地是一个名门望族。年轻人Eugene Morgan（约瑟夫·科顿 Joseph Cotten 饰）苦苦追求Amberson家的Isabel（多洛雷斯·卡斯特洛 Dolores Costello 饰）无果，Isabel最终嫁给了Wilbur Minafer（Donald Dillaway 饰演），两人生下儿子George（提姆·霍尔特 Tim Holt 饰）。George在父母的溺爱下长大，从小就是个骄横的孩子，长大后更是变本加厉。从大学回家的George遇到了来他们

　　Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There has been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as ...

This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.