A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM’s most popular leading ladies

Violent and dramatic events dog the life of hot headed rebel Chris Townes. Drifting from one menial job to another, where he finds resentment and eventually arrest, he finally loses…

A single man searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached.

A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

Lora Meredith, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson, a black single mother. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora’s daughter, Susie,…

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds…

At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by…

The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants.

Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she’s at first committed to helping troubled souls, like Nichole and little Dominic. When Father Clementi hears Sister Ann’s uplifting…

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L’Overture,…