Kathy Munson becomes ill and her twin sister Marion takes her place in order to keep the family business afloat. Complications ensue when Marion falls for her sister's beau, who doesn't know there is a twin.
After receiving her check, a woman goes undercover at a trucking company that her reporter husband was investigating in connection with a narcotics ring to find clues in the husband's car bomb murder.
A loyal wife believes so much in her artist husband despite her mother's protestations that the husband is a freeloader and a pretend artist that she will spend her fortune for the husband's credibility and fame.
Charles Simpson uses his money to move from a home for indigent World War I veterans, whose residents he dislikes, to luxurious surroundings, bringing his friend 'Stony' with him. But Stony misses the home's camaraderie.
The operator of a small newspaper uses his money to expose a crooked politician but uncovers facts about a woman that is resistant to his marriage proposal that makes her acceptance even more unlikely.
When Virginia Lennart receives her million dollars, she closes the hamburger diner she owns in Keokuk, Iowa and travels with her friend, Emmy, through Europe where she finds romance in Rome with an Italian count.
An older teen from the edgy streets uses his money to buy a business so he can marry the neighbor girl, but old associations could derail his path to reform.
A reform candidate for mayor who seeks to unseat a incumbent known for underhanded tactics forms an association that might prove detrimental with the incumbent's female assistant.
Butler Waldo Turner seeks to financially help the family that employs him, but sadly, they refuse because they think he loves the daughter who will marry him. But Turner actually speaks for his son, whom the daughter actually loves.
Jay Powers receives his million upon release from prison. He intends to use the money to expose and ruin the boss he believes framed him, despite his lingering feelings for the man's daughter.
Harry Borden as an former orphan longs for a family so funds a home for boys of missing parents while estranged from a selfish wife who hopes for a childless marriage but returns at the start of home when she must prove a change of heart.
When a woman's first husband, believed killed in war, returns after years in a prison camp, the woman must choose between the straightforward first husband and her idealistic second husband.
A struggling immigrant shoemaker uses his entire check to buy the painting of his dreams. Soon after, he realizes that he must exchange it for a copy to use the money to further the dreams of his family.
When Henry Denson deduces that his sister-in-law, Mildred, has a great sum of money, he plots the murder of Mildred and her husband-to-be, Fred, so that his wife will inherit the money.
A single, demure switchboard operator is mistaken for a married socialite. She uses her money to continue the charade so she might keep the attention of a handsome bachelor of means, who avoids the company of single women.
Nick Cannon secretly uses his money and openly his time to rehabilitate a boy whom he injured in a hit-and-run incident. As time passes, he develops feelings for the boy and his mother.
A widow and former socialite who gives parties to make ends meet must deal with the reemergence of man who jilted her seventeen years ago directly before her marriage and a prideful runaway daughter just as she gets her million.
Michael Anthony's life is put in danger when he delivers a check to extremely reclusive bird painter Russell Herbert. The painter has been murdered by his wife and her lover, and the lover accepts the check as Herbert.
For refusing to divulge information to the Nazis on insurgents during WWII, the Nazis damaged the fingers of renowned pianist Anton Bohrman, thus ruining his career. Then Michael Anthony delivers to him the million-dollar check.
James Bell's use of his money to find if his son Ted reported missing in action might still be alive draws a look alike impostor with revenge on his mind but the impostor finds the task less satisfying than he supposed.
After receiving his million, a deep-sea diver decides to quit the dangerous job. However, he agrees to take one last dive to rescue the man loved by the woman he loves, because the woman agrees to marry him if he does the job.
A professor pays his ex-athlete friend to romance and then reject a female nightclub singer with whom the professor is feuding, in an effort to prove to her that his misogynistic and cynical views on love and marriage are valid.
Just as an ailing judge is able to retire and enjoy his new wealth, he is confronted by an unbalanced ex-con with a twenty-year grudge, who threatens the judge and his family.
Jerry Bell believes that he is unloved because he is ugly, but finds love with a blind woman. He uses his million to cure her blindness, although he thinks she will reject him once she's able to see him.
Pete Hill starts a stalking campaign against Jerry Patterson, who was his best friend and business partner, because Pete believes Jerry's apparent good fortune is evidence that Jerry has cheated him out of his share of a uranium find.
When financially troubled Jimmy Reilly receives his million, he now has the means to marry the Italian woman he met while a soldier, but the woman rejects him to spare him from the news of her possibly terminal illness.
Disillusioned after losing a friend on his table, a surgeon leaves his beloved mining hometown, moves to Philadelphia, opens a new practice, and rekindles an old romance--but feels out of place in her high society world.
Crystal Sand's receipt of a million dollars allows to her to view with clarity her engagement to a philandering pilot and consider her feelings in a new light toward the man's apologist brother and the brother's to her.
A widow woman raising a stepson of a deceased father uses her money to send the boy to boarding school causing the boy to become bitter because he believes the stepmother's wealthy suitor has paid to remove him from the home.
A horse trainer buys after receiving his check a horse being sought by a wealthy stable owner whose daughter he courts so is accused by the owner of conspiring with a criminal element to acquire the funds for the purchase.
Tortured by his conscience, a revolutionary refugee from a failed rebellion uses his money to find and provide for a small boy whose parents he killed in the war.
Dan Larsen. head supermarket cashier of extreme punctuality and regimentation, is robbed of a sizable deposit despite a complicated system to disguise the exact date on which the actual deposit will occur.
A hotel clerk of meager means pledges to surrender everything he owns at moment's notice to settle a misunderstanding from a poker game he entered to get money to met his needs and then receives his million.
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