Zelda Cleaver

ミシシッピー州の大農園の邸宅に、当主ビッグ・ダディが病院での検査を終えて帰ってくる。ビッグ・ダディはガンで余命わずかと診断されていたが、本人はそのことを知らない。莫大な遺産を狙う長男一家が父を異常なほどに歓待する一方、次男ブリックと美しい妻マギーの間には冷え切った空気が漂う。しかしビッグ・ダディは昔から、長男一家より次男夫婦の方を気に入っていた。酒に溺れ妻の愛も父の遺産も受け取ることを拒否するブリックにいら立ちを募らせたマギーは、ついにブリックの亡き親友スキッパーの名前を口にしてしまう。

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a rough-edged tale of life inside a 1950s women’s reformatory. Set in the Martha Washington School for Girls—an institute for wayward teenagers and unwed mothers—THE GREEN-EYED BLONDE tackles a range of topical social issues as the inmates band together to help out one of their own when she refuses to give up her child.