Maude Wallace

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.

A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy by her ex, a military reservist killed in action.

Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.