A diffident travel agent dislikes children because, 40 years before, his wife died in pregnancy, as they were about to take a world trip. After receiving his million, he takes the trip and meets a woman that reminds him of his lost wife.
A boorish bakery truck driver spends some of his money to make over a dowdy coworker/neighbor to prove the shallowness of their boss. The female coworker desires attention from their boss, as the two avoid their mutual feelings.
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.
Before Rita has surgery, she persuades her husband to take her to the place she was crippled in her husband's boating accident. There they are intercepted by an escaped convict, but Fred devises an escape of his own.
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 marries a domineering, social-climbing husband. After he embezzles funds and dies in an accident, she must repay the funds or lose custody of the man's daughter, whom she adores (and who adores her).
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.
Terrance Costigan is sweeping the curbs when Anthony is incapacitated in a traffic accident. He retrieves a check that gets lost in the accident and deposits the check for the recipient. He is then mistaken as the benefactor.
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.