Helen Mowery

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.

A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.