Felix Bressart

Incredible biography of the genius who created, among other society-changing inventions, the motion picture medium. This story depicts Edison's beginning when he was a penniless janitor who set up a make-shift laboratory in an office basement.

Pat Jamieson is a scientist working on a high-altitude oxygen mask for World War II fighter pilots. He has nowhere to conduct his research until he meets Jamie Rowan, a woman with a large empty country house. She has no hopes of marrying for love but Jamie wants to help the war effort and she likes Pat, so to satisfy the proprieties they agree on a business arrangement: a marriage of convenience and partnership. They happily work on oxygen mixes instead...

"The world is on the brink of war-- but the show must go on. So Joseph Tura, the Polish actor who put the ham in Hamlet, stare beyond the footlights and says, "To be or not to be ..."--Container

A twisted mystery noir in which married college professor Andrew Gentling is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. The very next day, Catherine vanishes. Andrew's friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested. But this only puts Andrew in a deadlier kind of danger when the trail leads him to the crime-ridden streets of San Francisco.

When John Meredith meets amateur pianist Nadya Stepanova at a Moscow concert in 1941, the America conductor follows her to her rural town and marries her. Leaving her husband's tour when Germany begins its invasion, Nadya returns to her father's farm and fights against the Nazis. With the region under martial law and safe travel nonexistent, Meredith begins a perilous trek to reunite with his wife, unaware that her village may have already been destroyed....

"Third finger, left hand. That's where unmarried fashion-magazine editor Margot Sherwood Merrick parks a wedding ring, hoping to deter male colleagues who have more than business on their minds. Then a smitten artist learns Margot's secret and begins a charade of his own by passing himself off as her beloved hubby."--Container.

Success and heartbreak are awaiting three young women chosen for the Ziegfeld follies.