While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people He recalls the solo trapeze act of La Mara Tarzan, Sahib, and thei
Teenage Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where shes been confined after the shock she suffered from her glamorous socialite mother Jessicas fiery death Her father has a new wife, who has only married him fo
Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands
Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husbands company
In 1922, a would be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor
Shoe shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder Two bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember
After the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho German family follow different paths Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier
A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father that he would give up his life of crime and go straight
In WW2, an American aircraft carrier sails around the Pacific on a decoy mission until it joins the battle of Midway against the Japanese forces
A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wifes affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before
An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner
A newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friends wife to pose as his bride
This send up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music
The seniors return to Earth to visit their relatives Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to stay back on Earth
The OLeary brothers honest Jack and roguish Dion become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire
An old roue arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld
More fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal Leeds, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out