John Houseman

With the failure of President Hoover’s policies at the end of 1929, marked by the stock market crash on October 24, 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, the decade that began with the dream of endless progress and prosperity came to an end with millions unemployed. American industrial workers who had lost their jobs lined up in the streets for a bowl of soup and hunk of bread. Depression, new technology and foreclosure by the banks drove more...

A divorced woman moves to a new city, joins the choir of a local church and meets the choirmaster, an old man who will accept nothing but perfection, which causes her to consider quitting.

A young woman in a small Mississippi town in the 1930s falls in love with a railroad worker who was sent to their town to lay off the men working on the railroad.

In early 20th century Vienna, Stefan Brand is in the process of fleeing on the eve of a duel he wants no part of. However, before he can do so, he receives an anonymous letter from an unknown woman. Stefan is deeply moved by what he reads and starts to realize that the letter's author is Lisa Berndl, a young woman he's known but disregarded for most of his life.

The storm breaks in Europe as the Soviet-German pact has come to pass. President Roosevelt asks for Pug to be his "eyes and ears" in Germany. Caught in the turbulence of Hitler's lightning-fast sweept into Poland are Pug's son, Bryan and the woman he loves, Natalie Jastro, the niece of Jewish-American author, Aaron Jastrow.

Jane comes to Thornfield Hall as a governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Denied love all her life, Jane can't help but be attracted to the intelligent, vibrant, energetic Mr. Rochester, a man twice her age. But just when Mr. Rochester seems to be returning the attention, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram and her party to stay at his estates. Meanwhile, the secret of Thornfield Hall could ruin all their chances for happiness....

America is unaware that a "Day of Infamy" is approaching. In Russia, Pug smoothes over a diplomatic-military problem with Josef Stalin, then heads for Hawaii and his new command: the battleship U.S. California. Other members of the family are also on the move. While Byron is at sea, Natalie sets sail for Palestine with her uncle. Warren (Pug's second son) flies a mission out of Pearl Harbor.