Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.

Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her step...

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have d...

In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett...

Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New Yor...

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of a...

A university lectop finds himself embroiled in a nasty blackmail case. Powerful businessman Busoni i...

Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragil...

A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves f...

A young and wealthy widow, Maritsa, is a tempting prize for fortune hunters in search of a rich brid...

One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly n...

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curs...

Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in he...

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them...

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for...

A corrupt mayoress fakes a miracle to save her bankrupt town, and the romance between a rational nur...

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has die...