Ralph Brooks

A sanitized adaptation of Nathanael West's masterpiece.

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy. (imdb)

Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help. (imdb)

On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and know nothing about each other and exes and angry mobsters get in the way of their happily ever after though. Written by Tom Zoerner {Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de}

Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior. (imdb)

The rise of opera star Grace Moore.

An aspiring actress finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is in, is found dead in her apartment. (imdb)

When the studios reject her because she''s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own. (tcm.com)

Maverick private eyes Kildane and Quayle leave a large agency to work on their own. Their first assignment (pirated from the old firm): retrieve eloping heiress Penelope Hampton...in competition with their former boss Prentiss. Kildane finds Penelope with surprising ease and keeps her one jump ahead of Prentiss with assorted difficulties, but can he avoid a romantic complication with his lovely charge?

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented.