Tag Archives: Bette Davis

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Read More »

Miniature Dwyer is named after her mother, who was making miniature doll houses when Minnie was born. Read More »

In this roman-a-clef for the infamous Lucky Luciano Trial, Mary Dwight and four roommates work Read More »

Aged Bunny O’Hare has just lost everything, the Bank of New Mexico which has foreclosed on her mortgage and demolished her house. Read More »

Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. Read More »

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. Read More »

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin Read More »

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England Read More »

It’s 1914 in New York City. Adult brother and sister Trippy Trellis and Fanny Trellis, whose parents are now deceased, were once wealthy Read More »

Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. Read More »

A young woman, Stanley Timberlake, dumps her fiance, Craig Fleming, and runs off with her sister Roy’s husband, Peter Kingsmill. Read More »

Montgomery Royle is a famed pianist whose student, the much younger Grace Blair, believes herself to be in love with him. Read More »

The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Read More »

Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York City as old Broadway itself. Read More »

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother Read More »