Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

故事发生在车水马龙的大都市纽约，杰瑞（加里·格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）和露西（艾琳·邓恩 Irene Dunne 饰）是一对感情十分要好的夫妻，两人时常结伴出入上流人士所举办的高端晚宴之中，生活极尽奢华，但随着时间的推移，这表面幸福的婚姻生活终究还是出现了裂痕，杰瑞和露西决定离婚。 在两人分开之后，杰瑞邂逅了富有而又美丽的遗孀芭芭拉（莫莉·拉蒙特 Molly Lamont 饰），露西则傍上了石油大亨丹尼尔（拉尔夫·贝拉米 Ralph Bellamy 饰），可寻找到了各自幸福的两人却并不能相安无事，正相反，他们开始想方设法的破坏和阻挠对方的情感关系，就此引出了一系列荒诞可笑的意外。