Aurelie, an orphan, escapes from a New Orleans convent and is adopted by Mississippi riverboat captain Lindstrom. So that she can have a more settled life, he sends her to live with his brother, John Lindstrom, a squatter in a small river valley town. There she develops into a beautiful woman and wins a newspaper's beauty contest, attracting an offer from a theatrical producer, which she accepts. She rapidly achieves success, but when she returns to town, she is spurned.

FRAGMENT | The Family Steffensen lives on a farm in Southern Jutland. The area has been under German...

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leade...

Prospector Harry Farley returns from Alaska to find that his sister, Helen, has gone to New York wit...

A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is consid...

Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ra...

A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. ...

Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master build...

After his wife/model has died of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist mee...

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

Artist Standish using his wife Mary as his model finishes a painting of the Madonna. When the Connoi...

Devdas, the son of a zamindar, and Parvati, his neighbour's daughter, are childhood sweethearts. How...

A policeman falls for a teacher, and befriends her students. A gang of bootleggers threatens his new...

A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our...