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- Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
- The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
- An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
- When a dancer disappears from a theater, her former lover asks lawyer Clay Dalzell to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
- Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
- Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
- Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
- A Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent.
- Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.
- A series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic suspects they were not accidents.
- Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.
- A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
- The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
- A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
- A snapshot of life in the jungles of Northern Siam.
- Although the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, but they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps our equals, in morality.
- A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
- A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.
- A small town electrician becomes a hit singer in New York and gets involved with a gold digger, a thief, an opera singer and the woman he loves.
- A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.
- A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
- A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
- A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
- After Hildegarde proves that the accidental riding death on a Central Park bridle path is really murder, she's faced with a plethora of red herrings and a real killer.
- Because the Stanislavsky method of playing bridge has no rules, it promotes marital harmony for those who stick with it.
- A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
- A burglar is recruited to aid the police in finding his kidnapped girlfriend, a lovely but impoverished flower girl. Meanwhile, a deranged Russian emigre has been claiming that his ward is actually Princess Anastasia, last survivor of the Tsar's family--but she seems to behave strangely in the presence of flowers.
- A negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes.
- Racists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell.
- A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
- Judge Hardy, trying to find a relative of an aged couple to prevent them from losing their home, enlists the aid of his son Andy.
- Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
- At the request of a television experimenter who needed items to broadcast, Robert L. Ripley states unsubstantiated oddities including that a Spanish lady had her husband's portrait tattooed on her tongue as penance for nagging him to death. He also shows a house and the blind man who built it by himself in Wayne, New Jersey. The longest word in the world (184 letters, from a work by Aristophanes), is written on a blackboard and pronounced and translated by a professor. There are animated sequences of a rifle fish, which shoots at flying insects for food, and how a strange home run was hit in 1890, when the ball bounced off the outfielder's head and over the fence. Ripley demonstrates his skill as an artist by drawing several items, such as a Chinese man who had fingernails 22.75 inches long. Finally, in the most amazing sequence, Ripley introduces Carl Vaughan, who demonstrates how he picks up 12 pocket billiard balls with one hand and without touching the table or the balls with any other part of his body. There are scenes intercut throughout showing a family watching the show on television.
- Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
- A businessman enrolls as a college freshman in order to break up his son's relationship with a gold-digger.
- Dan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide.
- They smash through skylights, tumble down staircases, drop from a high rooftop into a waiting convertible - the only fall Skipper Clark and his pals won't take is to fall in love.
- Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
- Robert L. Ripley presents various oddities to members of the Believe-It-or-Not Club.
- A woman becomes a successful singer, but can't do as well in love.
- A man's pregnant second wife gets upset when he decides to go overseas to his young son, who may be dying of typhoid fever.
- In the midst of a mid-life crisis, Henry Smith convinces his wife, Ellen, that they should take separate one-week vacations, with no questions asked. He tries to sow some wild oats with a show girl and a paid escort, while she reacquaints herself with a childhood friend, now a famous explorer. Both get more than they bargained for.
- Reporters interview Ripley about his world travels.
- A maid helps her employers climb the social ladder and has a secretive interest in one particular socialite.
- A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
- Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
- California's gold dicovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
- Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. Stephen Kildare, he returns to his parents home to help him with his excessive workload. Dr. Kildaire Sr. is servicing a wide area ever since the doctors in neighboring towns moved elsewhere. Noting that three doctors at Blair General are doing menial jobs because they can't start their own practices, Kildare conceives the idea of building a clinic in Parkersville to be serviced by the three doctors and financed by the townsfolk paying ten cents a week to subscribe to the service. But influential men in Parkersville provide serious opposition to the plan.
- A teenager plays cupid for her widowed father but picks the wrong woman.
- Three apparent murders and a pair of imposters disrupt the lives of an engaged couple.