Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.

In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents be...

Pelopidas and his wife, Pelagia, receive a visit from their fiery daughter, Dora, who announces that...

A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father a...

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gl...

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an ...

Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title ...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...

Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage d...

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in ...

Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas...

To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters ...

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in ...

To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beaut...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she de...

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive ...

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Arc...

A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s b...