Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.

《音乐之声》的故事发生在1938年的奥地利萨尔兹堡，年轻活泼的修女玛丽亚·任纳尔(Maria Rainer)到退役海军上校冯·特拉普家，照顾他的七个孩子。冯·特拉普上校虽然冷漠严厉，但终究还是抵挡不住玛丽亚的纯洁善良，两人终于结婚，可惜刚刚渡完蜜月，他们的安静生活因被纳粹占领奥地利而破碎了。