Mona Freeman

Nightclub comic Hap Smith assumes the identity of another soldier so he can tour army bases in a revue with his ex-partner Chuck Allen. Hap Smith, nightclub entertainer, has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army: with lovely new partner Betsy Carter, Hap plays a clownish parody of a soldier. Meanwhile, Chick is organizing a soldier show at Fort Benning and finds he needs his old partner's help. To get onto the base, Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, Dogface Dolan; but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized snafu.

Woman gets involved with a crook trying to reform. Miriam Wilkins, teen-age daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of the Senator, elects him to the position of honorary president. After a new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, and is about to be fired, his daughter points out it would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on her society. Further complications arise involving a fuss-budget banker, Albert, a former suitor of Miriam's older married sister, plus some domestic misunderstandings between Baxter and his wife, and the older sister and her husband. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

When an imaginative girl has fantasies that her mother is having an affair, her visions almost ruin her parents domestic life. Based on the play "Alice Sit By The Fire" by James M. Barrie. In turn-of-the-century New York, a young girl who believes that she has learned "the seamy side of life" from a risqué play takes it upon herself to rescue her estranged mother from what appears to be a steamy love affair. Based on James M. Barrie's play "Alice Sit-by-the-Fire." —Molly Malloy <mailcall@ansel.intersource.com>

Performing sharpshooter Johnny Carter is asked to help a beleaguered group of copper miners. A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles. —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child. Twenty-five years ago the Lavery baby was kidnapped. Bad guy Leffingwell gets Choya to impersonate the son to gain the Lavery estate. When he finally fesses up to his "sister" Ruth she is furious. To redeem himself he sets out to find the real son. —Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

On Mother's Day, 1946, in San Francisco, Ziggy Brennan thinks back on the events which have brought her to this day: In 1938, young Ziggy's mother Natalie makes her pretend they are sisters and call her Nat, and teaches her how to trick men into giving her money. By the time she is a young adult, Ziggy's ambition and wiles attract a fellow con artist, Denny Reagan. Although Denny's pious mother worries for his soul and donates all the money he gives her to the church, he continues to work scams, and convinces Ziggy to help him. One evening at a nightclub, Ziggy meets a simple, handsome soldier, Mart Neilson, whose watch Denny admires. Ziggy steals it, but Denny later sees the watch's inscription from Mart's mother, and demands Ziggy return it. When she finds Mart, he insists that she date him, and although she admits that she stole the watch and brings him to spy on her mother as she cons a man into giving her money, Mart continues to love Ziggy. Days later, they marry and Ziggy becomes pregnant, but Mart is soon killed in combat. Around the same time, Denny is arrested and sent to the penitentiary. Soon after, Nat decides to marry and tells Ziggy to find her own apartment. When the baby, Martha, is born, the neighbors help Ziggy learn to care for her. Ziggy loves Martha, but continues to remember her mother's scornful prediction that she will be a bad mother who will only want to carouse. When a teenager, Olivette, offers to babysit, Ziggy hires her and begins to go out nightly, unaware that Olivette is leaving the baby alone as soon as she falls asleep. When Martha is eight months old, Denny is released from prison and visits Ziggy. He has reformed and wants her to do the same, and together they care for Martha during the day and go out each night. One night, Olivette leaves with her boyfriend and Martha falls out of her crib and almost chokes to death on the sheets. After Ziggy's landlady sends Martha to the juvenile authorities, Ziggy attacks her and is arrested. During her trial, Ziggy's neighbors accuse her of being neglectful, and the court places Martha in an orphanage. Denny shuns Ziggy for being a bad mother, and she soon becomes despondent. After Ziggy spurns Denny's mother's offer of help, she runs to the church. There she finds an abandoned child on a pew and takes him home. Months later, Denny is about to leave for Florida when he passes by Golden Gate Park and sees Ziggy with the baby, Denny, Jr. He checks up on her and, upon discovering that she is a model mother, begins a relationship with her again. Soon, Ziggy returns to the court, where the judge admonishes her for taking in a child but recognizes that she has become a devoted mother and returns Martha to her care. After Denny, Ziggy, Martha and Denny, Jr. leave the courthouse together, he asks her to marry him.