Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South. /// A hobo who occupies a vacant New York City mansion for the winter unknowingly gets involved with the owner's family.
The Ruggles clan decides to do something nice for Sharon's classmate, Elaine, whose father recently died. They prepare a lavish meal and take to her house on Christmas Eve, but discover that she's quite happy and a great singer, to boot.
Families in a small Vermont town want to provide a merry Christmas to the poor children in the local orphanage, but the woman who runs the institution will not allow her charges to leave. The determined villagers attempt to change the old woman's mind and allow the children to visit their homes for the holiday.
Marilyn Miller grows up in a showbiz family and hits Broadway before she is sixteen. She falls in love with her dancer-mentor Jack, but he is married. When she marries her stage partner Frank he soon is called to arms in World War I.