Polly James

Alan Westcott arrives in the strife-torn Missouri-Kansas border area on a mission for the Confederacy: find elusive guerrilla William Clarke Quantrill and deliver orders that he and his men are to attack the Union arsenal in Lawrence.

The local waitress Jane witnesses a murder committed by Glen Denbow, son of a cattle baron who's freezing out homesteaders by denying access across their land. Glen marries her to stop her from talking, but she later falls in love with the brother.

One day in 1872, Susie Graham is making beds at her mother's Leaping Rock, Nevada, boarding house. The next day, she's a millionaire's wife. That millionaire is Major Augustus Parkington, a dashing financial buccaneer who sweeps Susie away to a 5th Avenue mansion and a life of privilege and power. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon mark the fourth of their eight beloved film pairings with this grand chronicle (featuring sharp Oscar-nominated* performances from Garson and Agnes Moorehead) that begins with Susie as the 84-year-old family matriarch and flashes back to decades of passion, breakups, reconciliations, losses, laughs, schemes and sacrifices. Epic romance, epic adventure: Mrs. Parkington invites you to share her remarkable life.

Story of a social-climbing woman who marries a wealthy-but-homespun man and forces her way into high society.