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A young woman who marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will kill her to get it.

An agoraphobic woman raises her younger sister in an apartment locked away from the world. But one day, a reckless young neighbor falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest, and it doesn’t look like he's leaving.

A teacher is forced to cancel his summer plans to teach a remedial English class full of misfit kids.

Joe Gillis, a hunky but bankrupt screenwriter, is hired by washed-up silent screen star Norma Desmond to pen her a comeback star vehicle. Gillis has had his latest screenplay rejected by the studios, and, desperate, takes up Desmond's offer to write Salome for her. She demands that he stay with her while he writes, and soon he becomes a virtual prisoner of the actress and her gloomy house.

The story centers on the real life problems and controversies behind the scenes of a top-rated soap opera, that turn the series into a phenomenon.