Steve C. Porter

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.

Longtime singles Lillian Lambert and Clifford Pepperman enjoy a romance late in their lives.

During the height of the social revolution, a young dancer searches for salvation when she chooses to leave paradise.