Helen Twelvetrees

The Painted Desert -- Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be 'father.' They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches...

The Painted Desert -- Against a backdrop of spectacular Arizona desert landscapes, two cowboys engage in a bitter feud over the upbringing of an orphaned baby found in an abandoned emigrant's camp.

New York detective Ellery Queen (Donald Cook) has his holiday on the California coast cut short when he finds Stella Godfrey (Helen Twelvetrees), a guest at her family's adjacent seaside mansion, bound and gagged in his vacation cottage. With tensions running high at the Godfrey estate over a pending inheritance, Stella's attacker turns to murder, and Stella prevails upon the reluctant Ellery to investigate. Lewis D. Collins directs this mystery.

Millie Blake is a small town girl who falls in love and marries slick businessman Jack Maitland. After Millie gives birth to a daughter, their marriage falls apart when she catches Jack with his mistress. Millie is determined to make it on her own with her daughter. However, Millie finds heartbreak again when she discovers her boyfriend Tommy has cheated on her. Years pass and she becomes a hardened woman. She discovers that her old beau Jimmy Damier has plans to seduce her daughter. Bursting in on the pair Millie shoots and kills Jimmy and is charged with his death and a trial insues.