Myrna Loy

Turning to ranch hand Billy Buck for love and support, young Tom Tiflin inadvertently drives his family further apart. When his father gives him a red pony to care for, Tom again turns to Billy for help. Scripted by John Steinbeck, based on his novel "The Red Pony." Aaron Copland composed the film score.

Flo Ziegfeld's midway attraction isn't drawing flies. "How's business, Ziggy?" a rival taunts. This winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture provides the career-chronicling answer. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s business was good (with Broadway's legendary Follies and more), bad (including times the showman could scarcely rub two nickels together) and rarely lacking optimistic excess.

Nick and Nora are summoned to New Year's dinner at Nora's aristocratic family in San Francisco where they learn that cousin Selma's husband Robert is missing. Nick agrees to look for him but when Robert is shot Selma is accused of murder.

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury, of being a home-wrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, must find a way to turn the tables on her.

Middle-aged housekeeper Emma (Marie Dressler) helps a lonely widower, Ronald Smith (Richard Cromwell) raising his spoiled and over-entitled children. When Smith takes Emma on a vacation, he makes his feelings for her known by proposing marriage. Emma happily accepts, but tragedy strikes when Smith dies of a heart attack shortly after. Emma is devastated, but then must face Smith's children, who suspect she may have been involved in the death of their father.

Three World War II veterans—two bearing deep trauma—return to the American Midwest and find that they and their families have been forever changed.

Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon) is a newly promoted man trapped in a loveless marriage. Catherine's (Catherine Deneuve) marriage would be ideal if her husband wasn't a womanizer. Soon the pair find themselves falling in love, and facing their spouses.

Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.