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- The wealthy owner of a Park Avenue night club falls in love with a beautiful girl who turns out to have secrets. His doubt and suspicions set him on a dangerous path.
- Two airmen are in trouble. There's only one parachute. Their wives explore their complex relationships as they wait to hear who has survived.
- A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
- The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a personal interest; and Steve Van Ruyle, a sailor who has inherited a position on Faulkner's board of directors. Faulkner is (presumably) murdered, and Kit is falsely accused of the murder. Steve assumes the job of clearing her name.
- Connie Ennis, widowed mother to young son Timmy, has avoided accepting the marriage proposal of her longtime boyfriend Carl. While he patiently awaits her saying "yes," Connie clings to the memory of her late husband. By chance, a department store salesman enters her life and complicates matters when the two quickly fall in love. With two marriage proposals on the table, Connie is forced to make a final choice.
- Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
- The child born in none other than Jesus Christ and the event that was to rock the world is seen through the eyes of an innkeeper and his wife.
- An inmate feels he has paid his debt in prison and files for parole. All are in favor except for one member.
- A plain but wealthy heiress does not find the happiness she expected in her marriage to a handsome young man.
- Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
- A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
- A man moves his family from Puerto Rico to New York City in the hopes of making a success for himself. He soon finds out that by signing for what he wants, the creditors are after him.
- Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
- Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester.
- The macabre gift of a revolver with a single bullet in its chamber traps a sadistic killer at a wedding.
- A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
- Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
- A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
- Playwright tries to stop his wife from retiring so he can star her in his next play.
- A man abandons his bride on their wedding night only to show up a month later when he is accused of murder.
- An author borrows his friend's wife in order to ward off a young girl's attentions.
- A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
- Comedy of a country girl in the city, who uses her rooftop vegetable garden to win her man from the clutches of a movie siren.
- Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
- A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
- An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.
- An insurance detective is sent to investigate the sudden death of a man.
- A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
- After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
- Murder mystery in which a woman who has won the sweepstakes is found murdered.
- A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.
- An elderly but wealthy woman is murdered, and the only clues the police have are a a bloody envelope, a toothpick and a dead mosquito.
- An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
- This is a delightful story told from the view of "Mis' Lyd" who acts as the local chaperone to the young people amongst the bayous in Louisiana. Childhood friends Ed Deeves and Ruth Mendoza are in love. Their parents do not approve and have decided to send them away to school. Ed to become a Medical Doctor and Ruth to find "a good Spanish Jew to marry". Ed and Ruth decide to run away. Yet, they want to do it proper without shame on their families so they take the chaperone, Mis' Lyd. The old lady, Mis' Lyd, often pretends sleep to hear Ed and Ruth profess their love, their plans and their future. They spend several days, enjoying the fishing, the camping, and the comradeship. Eventually, they are found out. SPOILER: The fathers and "Mr. Flagger, the Methodist minister, who is a poor preacher but a grand fisherman" show up at the campsite. Through Mis' Lyd's conniving and coaching from the bushes where she hid, it all turns out better than Ed and Ruth could've hoped for.
- Tensions arise when a WW II squadron is ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives.
- Irish rebel Barry O'Day has a price on his head from the English, so he disguises himself as a groom. But when he falls in love with a beautiful English girl, she'll have nothing to do with a man who's only a groom. Nevertheless, Barry determines to claim Eileen for his own.
- An old man has a small ferry boat on which he takes goods and passengers back and forth across the river of a small Midwestern town. One day the town's leaders decide that they'll build a bridge from the town across the river, which would enable them to bring even more goods and visitors to the town, but it will put the old ferryman out of business.
- The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case - with tragic results.
- A carnival dancer finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by a corrupt political boss. Complications arise when she becomes romantically involved with the local Sheriff.
- An aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore.
- A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
- Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. But he wants to test the family before leaving his money to them. He takes a room in their home and a job in the father's shop. He anonymously grants them $100,000. Harriet Blaisdell moves the family into a mansion and makes plans to marry her daughter Millicent off to a socialite rather than her soda jerk boyfriend Dan. The money goes to their heads, and they soon find themselves broke, back in their old house, and back to their old lives. Father back in his shop, Millicent engaged to Dan, and everyone seemingly much happier. Hoping they learned their lesson, Fulton takes his leave of the family.
- Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
- The president of a power and light company is unaware that two of his associates plot to discredit him at an upcoming board meeting.
- Kendal, a secretary, helps to her boss Stephen Dexter out of a legal problem by becoming his wife. What was supposed to be temporary becomes something more after many obstacles.
- Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
- Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.
- A man convicted of murder breaks out of jail so he can expose the real killer.
- Lee suffers paralysis but the the love of a good man Nick helps her in her recovery.
- An unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
- The political future of the Governor of the Caribbean is in jeopardy due to his wife's past, which eventually catches up to her.
- What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.
- A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
- A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
- An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?
- A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiancée due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.
- A famous lawyer takes on the case of a man charged with a serious crime, which the lawyer himself has actually committed.
- A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
- The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
- Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
- A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.
- Linda Russell is under strict instructions from husband Bill to have the family home good and ready for the dinner visit of Bill's efficiency obsessed boss Mr Marshall. Will she meet Bill's expectations or will the evening end in disaster.
- An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
- Story of a once successful business executive whose delusions of grandeur cost him a career and a fortune.
- After being deserted by her husband, Mary falls in love with Michael. After a few years, they marry, raise a son, and Michael becomes a successful writer. However, her first husband returns with plans of blackmail.
- After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but cannot seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
- Joanna Maitland, living in Boston with her very conservative relatives, runs away to Palm Beach to be with her mother, Millie Maitland, whom she has been forbidden to see. Robert Lattimer, a Boston bank official in charge of her estate, follows her and, while trying to persuade her to return to Boston, falls in love with her. Millie, a social secretary in charge of the funds of a Palm Beach charity, 'borrows' from the fund, with intentions of paying the money back using a check she is expecting. When the check is stopped, Millie self-reports her embezzlement to the authorities.
- After Miss Mabel poisons her spiteful sister, she rewrites the will of her dead sibling to leave the estate to the locals.
- Baltimore, 1910. Miss Susie Slagle opens a boarding house for medical students.
- An old desert prospector refuses to vacate his shack in the blast area of an atomic bomb test.
- Julia Ross is a young woman alone in the world and is in search of a job. She is hired by an elderly woman named Mrs. Hughes to act as her live-in personal secretary. One of Mrs. Hughes' stipulations is that whomever she hire treat this job as one of a long term nature, meaning no current boyfriends or marriage on the horizon. The closest person to Julia was Dennis Bruce, who lived at the same boarding house and who was somewhat sweet on Julia but left to get married to another woman. As such, Julia is grateful for her new job. When Julia awakens after her first night at the Hughes home, she learns she has been asleep for two days. She is no longer in the urban London home she knows as Mrs. Hughes' home, but rather a sprawling and isolated estate by the sea in Cornwall. All evidence of her being Julia Ross has disappeared. And everyone in the house, including Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Hughes' son Ralph, and all the household servants, try to convince her that she is Marion Hughes, Ralph's wife who is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Julia is certain of who she is, and suspects the Hugheses are going to kill her for whatever reason. Julia is alone with no one to support her claim and thus help her as the Hugheses have made her seem crazy to whomever she has spoken. However, initially unknown to the Hugheses, Dennis Bruce, who ended up not getting married, returned to the rooming house just before Julia's departure and made a date with her. Since she didn't keep the date, he goes looking for her.
- Cathy Mallory, beautiful socialite who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick Morgan's swing band but seems to be a composer of great promise. Attracted but spurned, Cathy feigns blindness herself to get past Dan's bitter facade, scheming to get him to the doctor who can restore his sight...and to Carnegie Hall. But her actions bring about several twists in their relationship...
- A woman recently released from a mental institute gets a job as a housekeeper. Things turn for the worse when her employer's wife arrives, causing stress and conflict for the rest of the household.
- Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
- Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.
- Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
- A woman finds out that she has magical powers, and terrorizes the neighborhood and turns into a witch to scare the local kids. Her son sees his mother's new powers as a chance for him to make a ton of money.
- Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
- Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
- A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
- After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
- Concerning a clash between a young medical student and a famous brain specialist.
- A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
- A man murders his wife then makes his interest known to her best friend.
- After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
- A pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess.
- An innocent man is about to be convicted of murdering his hypochondriac wife.
- Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?
- An aging actress resists the fact that she is no longer able to play ingénue roles.
- The adventures of law student Bellamy Partridge's at school and his quest to wed Judy Dwinelle.
- Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one of her family talks Bobby into tricking Rims into marriage, the real world comes crashing down on the couple.
- An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
- A middle-aged woman is surprised when her son-in-law falls deeply in love with her.
- A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.
- A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
- A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?
- Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.
- A night club musician, believing he is soon to die from an incurable disease, plans to carry out an unusual sacrifice in order to insure financial security for his family.
- Greedy Joseph Bently is working hard on his plan to inherit the estate of a rich relative, but things change when his sister confesses that she murdered her husband.
- A romantic comedy involving a young writer and a rugged forest ranger dealing with a vacation housing problem.
- A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.
- A reporter is determined to bring down a gambling kingpin.
- A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years, waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.
- In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcée with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Bored, Ruby undertakes to recover a friend's letters from Baroudi. But when she meets the blackmailer, mutual attraction leads to an affair. As Ruby gets in deeper, she finds Baroudi is even more unscrupulous than she dreamed.
- An American teacher rescues a group of orphans during an Asian war and finds she has problems trying to get them thru immigration.
- When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.
- 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.
- A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.
- Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
- Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
- Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.
- A woman is acquitted of murdering her husband, but the cloud of suspicion still surrounds her. Her daughter and a tenant in the family rooming house set out to find the real killer of her father.
- A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
- When a gentle older priest is found killed a young man quota the force so he can devote all his time to finding the killer.
- Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.
- A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.
- After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.
- Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
- A stubborn old farmer won't listen to any of his neighbors about how to improve the efficiency of his farm with modern methods, as he thinks "the old ways" were just fine. His three daughters live on the farm with him, and the oldest one, a teenager, has fallen in love with a local boy. However, she knows that she is expected to help her father work the farm and is torn between her love for the local boy and her father's expectations for her to continue working the farm.
- Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl.
- The outside witness is a window washer who, while performing his task, has his attention drawn to a supposedly respectable couple. He indeed overhears them discussing a murder plan designed to get rid of the man who could send them to jail. What is he going to do?
- A man finds a wallet in a taxicab with a lot of money in it. He turns it in to the police, who--according to the law--will hold it for 90 days, and if no one claims it, the wallet and its content will be given to the person who found it. However, when his friends and neighbors find out that he turned in the wallet, they ridicule him mercilessly, and he begins to wonder if he did the right thing or not.
- Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
- A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
- Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle. He calls this a cop's war that is the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills an innocent bystander. And he has to protect police informer Mary Abbott from Swados, a killer in the hire of the man behind the petty mobsters.
- An innocent girl is sent to prison by her policeman sweetheart who believes her guilty of the crime. When she is released on parole, the girl swears vengeance on those responsible for her undeserved punishment.