A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.

An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.

A rancher, smitten with a pretty young girl he meets, hires himself out to her as a chauffeur, only to find out that she's on her way to his ranch. In order not to look foolish he keeps up the pretense, but his crooked ranch foreman eventually brings matters to a head.