Katharine Alexander

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

Bette Davis and Gladys Cooper deliver Oscar-nominated performances in this 1942 romance drama following a woman contending with a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother. It all becomes too much to handle, until she meets a man on a cruise.