Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can’t get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons – maker and breaker of careers…

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people–and the law–tell him he has to.

A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father’s blousy mistress.