Dans le Paris des années 20, Caprice, une jeune chanteuse, vit une ascension aussi rapide qu'imprévue. Elle se débat entre ses sentiments confus pour Jeff, un jeune compositeur et l'indignation de la censure. M. Gambier dit « Bagnolet », un photographe anarchiste, surveille gentiment les aventures de la jeune femme, devenue « Lady Paname », et, à défaut de la morale, il fera triompher l'amour.

1936 film by Robert Siodmak

1933 film by Louis Jouvet, Roger Goupillières

1933 film by Marcel Pagnol, Louis J. Gasnier

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.

Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"

Scénario : D'après le roman d'Hector Turnbull The Cheat Denise Moret est allée rejoindre Pierre, son mari, en Mongolie où il travaille comme ingénieur du génie civil. Un soir elle perd beaucoup au jeu et emprunte de l'argent au prince Lee-Lang qui lui fait aussitôt des avances qu'elle repousse. Le prince se venge en sabotant le travail de Pierre et au cours d'une entrevue dramatique, Denise le tue. Elle est acquittée.

1946 film

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.