Ruth Storey

한방 친구였던 메리와 리즈는 졸업과 더불어 각자의 인생을 살아가게 된다. 10년 후, 평범한 가정주부로서 살아가고 있던 메리는 소설가로서 성공한 리즈를 보면서 묘한 질투감을 느끼게 되고 주부로서의 삶에 만족할 수 없게 된다. 뒤늦게 3류 잡지에 글을 쓰면서 메리는 그 방면으로 성공하게 되지만 남편은 일만 아는 아내로 변한 메리를 버리고 가버린다. 리즈는 지적인 소설가로서 명성은 얻었으나 독신의 고독감 속에 묻혀서 지내는데, 어느날 기자가 리즈를 인터뷰하기 위해 찾아온다. 리즈는 그를 통해 결혼에 대해서 다시 생각하게 되지만.

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.

The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a shepherd, is proclaimed king and defeats Nebuchadnezzar.

A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess.