Wendy Ballantine’s parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show…

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride…

A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes…

In New York’s 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger…

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving…

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

After her father’s funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife,…

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won’t find out she’s been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices…

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then runs for help to traveling salesman Charles…