James Gleason

An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will ...

Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his ...

In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil’s henchmen go a ...

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he’s the ...

The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he ...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw’s unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who ...

Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made ...

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day ...

At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of “Puget ...

Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he’s incurred.

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she’s presumed murdered, his friend Martha ...

A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent’s bad behavior.

Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West ...

Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are ...

Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for ...

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it’s much more difficult to find work than he ...

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these ...

During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an ...

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a ...

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets ...

A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he’s killed on a mission, he is ...

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. ...

Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into ...