A diffident travel agent who dislikes children because his wife died in pregnancy as they were about to take a world trip opts to take the trip with the money and meets a woman that reminds him of his lost wife who changes his life.

A boorish bakery truck driver spends some of his money to make over a dowdy coworker and also neighbor to prove the shallowness of their boss from whom the female coworker desires attention as the two avoid their mutual feelings.

A woman placed in a decrepit old women's home at the behest of her daughter-in-law over the woman's permissiveness toward the granddaughter draws accusations of incompetence when she uses her money to elaborately remake the home.

A modest, thrifty and handy woman must repay funds embezzled by a domineering, social climbing husband after the man's accidental death to gain custody of the man's daughter who she adores.

The use by a charismatic secretary of her money at the same time a man comes to ready the office to function in absence of the ill boss draws the suspicion of her exceptionally jealous husband to be and endangers the engagement.

A selfish career woman thinks her million will allow her to marry a dedicated young doctor whose attention she has cynically accepted and whose work she has disrespected.

An insurance investigator uses his million to investigate the robbery of a finance company because he has evidence the accused woman for which he has fallen is innocent but the woman is unusually ambiguous about the evidence.

Peter Bartley wants to use his money to find and help his two younger brothers who were separated from him by adoption from a Catholic orphanage where Pete grew to adulthood.

After Elliot Smith marries nurse Doris Winslow who is unaware of Smith's great family wealth, another jealous nurse jeopardizes the marriage by causing Smith to believe that Winslow has married him for his money.

A young woman who lives with an abusive mother and a detached and selfish step family meets a young scientist who wants to marry her but the man is loathe to wait for her much anticipated meeting with her long absent father.

Detective Ed Murdock 's wife pleads with him to leave the force after they receive the million but Murdock is determined to bring to justice the man who critically wounded his former partner before he leaves the force.

Barbara Lydon forsakes her longtime hometown love and uses her million to travel to Switzerland where she becomes romantically involved with a count caught up in a live and death struggle over a World War II grudge.

Wheelchair bound and of faded fortune, Regina Wainwright of southern aristocratic heritage hides her million to make her daughter think that the mother is dependent on her and to spoil the daughter's relationship with a Yankee suitor.

Walter Carter has had mental care and has had hallucinations about receiving a fortune since a business failure has broke him hurting his partners so those associates and his family believe that his million is imaginary.

Jane Costello uses her money to send her daughter away to separate the daughter from her boyfriend because Jane believes they are too young to be so serious but the couple elopes and are caught in the path of a hurricane.

A man receives the million-dollar check returns to a small village in France to repay the kindness that the villagers showed him during the war.

An American medical student in Paris losing in his rivalry for an American art student to a French composer due to her sympathy for the man after he loses sight in an accident uses his check to restore the rivals sight to even the odds.

An ex-GI is unable to dance due to his war wounds.

An English teacher's use of her money to invest in a boxer puts her in conflict with school administration and crooked promoters.

A salesgirl while working as a hospital volunteer alongside society girls draws the romantic interest of the young board chairman and the unbridled envy of one of the society girls.

An aerialist long distraught over the performance death of his wife descends into gambling and irresponsible behavior until transformed by love of the circus owner's sister and love for a boy with an elephant.

A beautiful model scarred in an automobile accident uses a portion of her money for plastic surgery to restore her looks and then plans revenge on the photographer who was the driver and her beau but shunned her while she was scarred.

When Michael Holm receives his million, he decides to leave his meager and unrewarding law practice to become a man of leisure until his girlfriend introduces him to a man in a shaky legal situation and he sees the good he can now do.

A private detective hired by Anthony to find a missing nurse of exemplary character engaged to a doctor discovers a past possibly very much less respectable than the nurse's present image suggests.

A man facing imminent execution for a murder he was framed of doing uses his million to buy evidence that he hopes will prove his innocence.