| Description | Actress, Movie |
| A seductive woman who teams with an insurance man to murder her wealthy husband. | |
| A nightclub singer who becomes an alcoholic when she gives up on her career to marry. | |
| A socialite who must juggle the affections of her fiance, her ex-husband, and the reporter assigned to cover her wedding. | |
| A working class woman who falls in love with an upper class man, despite her family of steel workers striking against his father, the factory owner. | |
| A deaf-mute girl who befriends a kind doctor and is raped by a customer of her farmer father. | |
| A young single woman who shares her apartment with an eligible man and a meddling older man during the Washington housing shortage of World War II. | |
| A woman with an unhealthy attachment to her deceased father who seems to be killing every other important person in her husband's life. | |
| A woman whose natural child dies, and later cares for many orphans and fights to remove the stigma of illegitimacy. | |
| A French girl who speaks to God and leads her people in war against the English. | |
| The wife of a famous baseball player who must deal with the rare disease her husband suffers from. | |
| A department store executive who struggles with the decision to enter a safe marriage or to run away with the man she really loves. | |
| A biracial woman who encounters prejudice when she moves in with her white relatives in the Old West. | |
| A homely spinster who falls victim to the false affections of a handsome gold digger, despite the objections of her father. | |
| An ambitious Southern woman who deals with her scheming brothers and detests her sickly husband. | |
| A Scandanavian-American who works as a maid for a prominent family, and later becomes a figure in politics. | |
| A woman accompanying a group of guerillas in the mountains during the Spanish Civil War. | |
| An unhappy English housewife who recounts her unrequited relationship with a stranger she met at the train station. | |
| A proper nun who teams with a charismatic priest to secure a new school building from a grumpy businessman. | |
| A political columnist who feuds with her husband, a sports writer, through their newspaper outlets. | |
| A woman who struggles to raise her daughters while her husband serves in World War II. | |
| An unhappily married alcoholic who reminisces about her true love and why she eventually married her husband. | |
| An amnesiac who may be responsible for the death of a soldier's friend. | |
| A woman who marries a rich Englishman, but cannot escape the shadow of his deceased first wife. | |
| A woman who reluctantly gives up her illegitimate son, and then becomes a successful wartime businesswoman. | |
| A woman who believes her charismatic new husband may actually be a vicious killer. | |