Screenplay: Catherine Turney

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Carson · Ann Blyth · Zachary Scott

Plot A ditched wife and mother (Joan Crawford) is forced to become a waitress. She constructs an empire of eateries, only to be disappointed by her rotten daughter (Ann Blyth) and...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter

Plot Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Bette Davis · Glenn Ford · Dane Clark · Walter Brennan

Plot Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Martha's Vineyard lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson. Patricia and Bill are married. To forget, Kate returns to painting. Bill goes...

Direction John Newland · Axel Gruenberg · Jack B. Hively

Cast John Newland · Robert Douglas · Will J. White · Olan Soule

Plot Produced at the same time as the more well-known Twilight Zone, this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Ida Lupino · Robert Alda · Bruce Bennett · Andrea King

Direction King Vidor

Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Don Taylor · Cameron Mitchell · Marie Windsor

Plot Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Henreid · Eleanor Parker · Alexis Smith · Edmund Gwenn

Plot A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Warner Anderson · Lucile Watson

Plot Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Errol Flynn · Barbara Stanwyck · Geraldine Brooks · Richard Basehart

Plot Sandra Demarest arrives at the Caldwell estate, and announces to Mark Caldwell that she was secretly married to his nephew James, who recently died. Mark does not believe her, but...

Direction Bretaigne Windust

Cast Bette Davis · Janis Paige · Jim Davis · John Hoyt

Plot Spinster poetess Susan Grieve lives in a Manahattan apartment where naval hero Slick Novak comes with her for a nightcap. Next morning they visit her Connecticut farm where Novak tells...

Direction Charles Marquis Warren

Cast Peggie Castle · Marsha Hunt · Arthur Franz · Don Haggerty

Plot When Katy Hazleton visits her sister, Miranda/Mandy, and her husband, Dick Anthony, Dick tells her of his concern over Miranda's recent moody and strange behavior. Walking along the beach that...

Direction John Newland

Cast Olive Deering · Luana Anders · Edward Platt · Sandra Knight

Plot Alice Deering is a shy teenage girl who is trying to fit into a new community, make new friends and coexist with her abusive aunt and insensitive father, who insists...

Direction Herschel Daugherty · Richard Irving · John English · Don Weis

Cast Tim Graham · Jean Byron · Marguerite Chapman · Robert Armstrong

Plot This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Ann Sheridan · Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson · Alexis Smith

Plot Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party--until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine which...