Teacher
1947年、美貌の未亡人ローラは一人娘のスージーとコニー・アイランドの謝肉祭にやってきた。そこで黒人女のアニーと知り合って……。ファニー・ハーストのベストセラーを再映画化した、暗い宿命に泣く女の悲しみを描くメロドラマ。
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee's manipulative Mama and the flock of mostly obnoxious relatives with whom she's filled the house.
Minnie
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.