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Ann Harding plays Julia Courtney, a retired actress who becomes involved in a murder.Julia lives in a theatrical boarding house, and when one of the residents is murdered, all of the residents are under suspicion. The chief suspect is a young friend of Julia's, played by Vera Miles.
Adapted from the Liam O'Flaherty story.
Ralph and Laura Whitemore have suffered many financial disappointments in their life together. But after all those "big deals" that fell through, at last a "sure thing" comes along, and they wait for the phone call that will bring their "pot of gold."
Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.
After her baby dies in childbirth, Alice Kellen retreats into a world of her own. As she sinks deeper into fantasy, her husband tries a desperate measure to snap her back to reality.
A stranger enters a tavern to take shelter from the storm, the year is 1829, and finds the Inn crowded with townspeople, all celebrating tomorrow's hanging. He also finds an old friend from the war of 1812, and the two men have a drink. But they are the only ones not celebrating the coming execution.
A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.
Adapted from the Lula Vollmer 1939 Saturday Evening Post story.
A young mountain girl marries a widower with four children and goes to live in his rustic cabin. Not only does she find the unfamiliar routine hard, but she must face the task of winning over the frightened youngsters.
Authoress Emily Marsden secludes herself in a small village after quarreling with her husband. There she learns quite a lot about her own difficulties by trying to help someone else.
A young homicide suspect who has escaped from the police, seeks refuge with Graham, an intellectual cynic. For reasons of his own, Graham decides to harbor the youngster.
A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.
A teenager meets with a violent awakening to maturity. Evvy, who lives with her parents in New Mexico, has met few boys. Suddenly she finds herself in a situation which is both confusing and frightening when Ray Poole, the town bully, becomes interested in her.
Lydia Shaw, wife of a successful lawyer, is being blackmailed by a man who has some love letters she wrote before her marriage. Afraid to let her husband find out about the romance, Lydia agrees to pay off her former sweetheart.
Two brothers, one a doctor the other a fast-draw Sheriff, live in conflict with each other in a town that is run by a ruthless saloon owner.
An ex-boxer now trainer feels his over confident young fighter is winding up for a big fall.
Wandering cowboy Britt Ponset finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between mine owner "Silver Annie" Huxley, the leaders of Virtue City, and the railroad, which wants to builds tracks across her property.
During World War 2, a ship's captain picked up the survivors of a torpedoed ship. Among those rescued were a pretty Eurasian girl and a sinister-appearing man.
A man about to retire from his job at a department story after years of service falls for a pretty blonde. He plots to make off with $50,000 from the store's safe, only to be discovered by his boss. Instead of reporting him, the boss tries to blackmail him into stealing an even larger amount of money.
A woman accountant who aspires to be a novelist is embittered by the number of rejection slips she receives. She decides to get vengeance on one publisher who holds her beloved novel up to ridicule. Ironically her book concerns an author who shoots a publisher when he rejects her novel.
Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.
A man tries to live down his reputation as a gunman by taking a job as a ranch hand. When he is forced to shoot a man in defense of another, an unusual sequence of events results.
A female taxicab driver finds a dead man in the back seat of her cab, and a persistent suitor in the person of the detective who investigates the case.
An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death. But at the same time she arouses in him a deep hatred for her.
After he has invested in a publishing firm, a Broadway star is shocked to learn that it prints unsavory literature. He becomes involved in an argument with the publisher, and strikes the man. Convinced he is guilty of murder, the star does not know what to do. Should he confess and bring scandal upon himself and his family, or should he run away?
A cavalry captain and his small band are out-numbered by the surrounding Comanche Indians. The captain is faced with a difficult decision when the company surgeon offers to tend the fatally wounded son of the attacking chief. To let the surgeon go would mean his certain death - but safety for the rest.
