Ruth Storey

Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. (imdb)

A production, filmed for PBS, of Clifford Odets' 1935 play about a struggling Jewish family in the Bronx.

In ancient times, a Jew is instrumental in the crowning of a new Median-Persian king who, in return, conquers Babylon and frees all the Jewish slaves.