Rida Johnson Young

Napoleon's younger brother falls for a girl from Baltimore. (TCM.com)

An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer. (TCM.com)

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died. (imdb)

Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn't. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat. (imdb)

Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality. (imdb)

A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner. (imdb)

Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh. (imdb)

Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate. (imdb)