Joy Hallward

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.

An screenwriter with a violence record is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.