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Promising to invest in the family's cotton mill—an investment that will make them wealthy beyond their dreams—Chicago businessman William Marshall (Stephen Klum, center) toasts the Hubbard family: from left to right, Regina Giddens (Jacqueline Antaramian), Regina's brother Oscar Hubbard (Robert Parsons), Oscar's son Leo (John Bull), and Ben Hubbard (Jack Willis).

As Birdie (Julia Gibson, right) looks on suspiciously, Ben (Jack Willis) convinces his determined sister Regina (Jacqueline Antaramian) that the only way she will be able to afford to move to Chicago is by convincing her husband Horace to invest in the cotton mill.

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Oscar (Robert Parsons) forbids his wife Birdie (Julia Gibson) from preventing the marriage between their son Leo and Regina's daughter Alexandra, a union that would keep the wealth in their family.

Birdie (Julia Gibson) welcomes Regina's ailing husband Horace Giddens (Nicholas Hormann) home from Baltimore.

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As Alexandra (Grace Heid) observes their scheming, Ben (Jack Willis) informs Regina (Jacqueline Antaramian)—unable to convince Horace to invest—that she has been cut out of the deal in favor of one of Leo's associates.

A weakened Horace (Nicholas Hormann) calls out for help in retrieving his medication as his embittered wife Regina (Jacqueline Antaramian) sits by silently letting him struggle.

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As Leo (John Bull) informs his father Oscar (Robert Parsons) that Horace knows of the bonds Leo stole from Horace to invest with Marshall in Chicago, Oscar devises a plan to deny the family's involvement.

As Regina (Jacqueline Antaramian) tries to convince her daughter Alexandra (Grace Heid) to come with her to Chicago, Alexandra says she wants to be left alone—voting to fight the Hubbards and all the "people who eat the earth."

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Playwright, activist, blacklisted screenwriter, infamous rabble-rouser, one-time flame of San Francisco icon Dashiell Hammett, and author of The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman.