| Description | Actress, Movie |
| A young woman who must deal with her husband's wanderlust and eventually becomes a prominent political figure in the expanding American West. | |
| A well-meaning Italian girl who must turn to prostitution to support her sickly mother. | |
| An actress who is the target of an infidelity deception by her jealous actor husband. | |
| A door to door saleswoman who becomes a maid for a down-on-their-luck family she encounters. | |
| A formerly poor Parisian who poses as a noblewoman and falls in love with a young man, but runs into trouble when the man's father discovers her past. | |
| A formerly reserved woman who has relationships with several men when she learns of her husband's infidelity. | |
| An alcoholic actress whose career is on the skids who breaks up the engagement of a prominent architect. | |
| A level-headed rich girl who falls in love with her sister's free-wheeling fiance. | |
| A struggling woman who emigrates to the United States from Eastern Europe. | |
| A carefree young woman who marries a stuffy professor and opens his life to joy and happiness for the first time. | |
| A European actress who marries, and later divorces, one of the most influential American theatrical producers of all time. | |
| A woman who raises the children of a wealthy widower, and then shocks his family by marrying him after many years. | |
| A kept woman who maintains a lavish lifestyle with the help of her lover. | |
| A talented young actress whose career soars as that of her alcoholic husband's takes a nosedive. | |
| A spoiled heiress who runs away from her father and travels back to her husband with a cocky reporter. | |
| The daughter of an illiterate fisherman in Minnesota who returns home after several years of schooling. | |
| A spoiled Southern belle who marries several men before, during, and after the Civil War. | |
| A young woman who discreetly riles up her conservative community by writing a risque novel under a pen name. | |
| A vulgar proprietess of a seaside inn who raises and protects a young girl for many years. | |
| A Cockney flower girl who is taught to speak properly by an egotistical professor. | |
| The matriarch of a wealthy English family who personally endures all of the major events of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. | |
| A sweet psychiatrist who improves the lives of many of her patients. | |
| The doomed wife of Louis XVI at the time of the French Revolution. | |
| A singer in Northern Africa who falls in love with a Foreign Legionnaire. | |
| An aspiring opera singer who must deal with the affections of several men as she tries to improve her career. | |
| A spoiled heiress whose life is improved by a homeless former executive who becomes her family's butler. | |
| A shy member of a middle class family who struggles to find the confidence to pursue love in her stuffy society. | |