Stella is an out-of-left-field black comedy in which star Anne Sheridan is upstaged by an uproarious supporting cast. At a family picnic, a none too likeable uncle dies from accidentally eating poisoned mushrooms. The other family members don’t want to be accused of murder, so they leave it to the stupidest branch of the clan, personified by David Wayne and Frank Fontaine, to dispose of the body. When it is learned that Uncle had a hefty insurance policy, the family tries to palm off various corpses as the genuine article.
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The Bononnos were one of the Five Families organized after the Castellammarese War. Headed by Joe Bonanno. Joe later lost his capo regime status to Gaspar DiGregorio this caused the “Banana Split,” aka the Bonanno War. In 1964 Joseph Bonanno mysteriously disappears from the streets of NYC. Joseph’s son Salvatore takes leadership of the family business. Following a family feud, the family split into two factions. A bloody war breaks out, and Salvatore and his family faces treats from former friends and allies in the struggle for power.
Follows the lives of three unrelated teenagers as they run away from their respective homes, each for different reasons. Arriving in Chicago, one tries to make good with his life only to find it a little more difficult than he had imagined; one falls in with “the rock and roll set” and comes to a violent end; and one gets mixed up with prostitutes, but comes good in the end. Shows things from both the parents’ side and the kids’ side. The underlying story is that you can’t solve your problems on the road if you can’t solve them at home.
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step…
Tommy Scott goes to a Connecticut college to become a doctor, but is soon discovered to be a prodigious football talent. He becomes a national star and falls in love, but fame and ill-advised financial deals threaten to ruin his future.
A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn’t love. Will he become the next John McEnroe? Will she choose love over financial security?
Widowed mother Charlotte Lord would like to marry wealthy Guy Barton, but Bartons’ avaricious ex-wife Sybil insists upon contesting their recent Mexican divorce. Charlotte’s daughters Jane, Leni and Marilyn conspire to put Sybil out of the way by pairing her off with Steve Nelson, gilding the lily by convincing Nelson to pose as Argentine cattle baron Don Pablo Viscente. The ruse almost works, but then the real Don Pablo shows up. Undaunted, the Lord girls concoct a variety of additional schemes to smooth the path of romance for their mother and the eligible Mr. Barton.
An ambitious grain trader Chris Martin, who through fair and foul means corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint. Meanwhile, Chris’s ex-sweetheart Ellen marries his down-to-earth brother Walt, who has chosen to remain on the family farm. Inevitably, the two brothers find themselves on opposite sides when Chris’s greed overtakes his common sense.