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In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

After a newlywed’s husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile…

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she…

Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor’s running feud with his leading lady.

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister.

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city’s most powerful gangsters.

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a…

Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers…

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster’s bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she’s kidnapped.

Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are “bum newspapermen”. When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of…

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a…

An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial…

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of…

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work…

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they…

A farmer’s widow takes on the land and her late husband’s tempestuous son.

While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his…

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy,…

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father’s endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later…