Nathanael West

30-е годы XX века. Голливуд – недостижимая вершина для восторженных любителей кинематографа. Но год от года мечтатели продолжают штурмовать ее в надежде доказать свой талант и обрести славу, деньги, любовь поклонников. Хэрри Гриннер, выпускник Йельского университета, тоже пытается войти в мир кинобизнеса. Но попав за кулисы киноиндустрии, он видит, что за красивой картинкой «фабрики грез» скрывается уродливая реальность.

Страстно мечтающий стать журналистом молодой человек Адам Уайт соглашается вести в газете колонку советов под псевдонимом "Мисс Лонлихартс". Адам считает, что эта колонка - лишь первый шаг к карьере настоящего журналиста. Поначалу Адам снисходительно относится к своей рубрике, но когда в редакцию начинают приходить сотни искренних писем, полных боли и страданий, он меняет свое отношение к работе. По настоянию циничного редактора Шрайка Адам встречается с одной из корреспонденток, но всё оказывается не так просто. По повести Натанаэла Уэста "Подруга скорбящих"

A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.

A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.

Репортёр Майк Уорд — главный свидетель по делу об убийстве. Он видел обвиняемого Бриггса стоящим возле тела убитого в кафе, и это ключевое свидетельства для признания вины Бриггса. Джейн, невеста Уорда, сомневается в несомненности его показаний, и эти сомнения начинают преследовать репортёра.

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.

A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.

A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.

Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him

An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.

A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.

Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.