Keefe Brasselle

Sally, a bored young waitress, lives in a do-nothing, go-nowhere town, but longs for something bigger and brighter. When suave young musician Steve comes through town, Sally falls head-over-heels and follows him on the road—until she winds up pregnant and pursued by Steve’s creepy friend.

The dreams of a young dancer on the cusp of a professional break with her partner, choreographer and fiancé are destroyed with a polio diagnosis.

George Eastman is a poor young man determined to win a place in society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman's professional and romantic prospects.