Ellen McNulty sells her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party her husband is throwing to impress his boss. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications. Written by Daniel Bubbeo {dbubbeo@cmp.com}
White-collar working stiff but upwardly mobile Val McNulty meets, quickly falls in love and marries socialite Maggie Carleton, who has no money of her own. Thus, they live in a modest apartment on Val's wages. At the same time, Val's widowed mother, Ellen, without funds of her own when the bank forecloses on her family business, a hamburger stand, decides to move from New Jersey to Ohio to live with Val. Her plans change when she finds out about Val's upcoming nuptials as she doesn't want to upset Val's life with his new wife. She also doesn't want to meet Maggie until she feels she has enough money at least to make herself "presentable" to someone of Maggie's social class. Once Ellen feels that is the case, she goes over to Val and Maggie's where a case of mistaken identity ensues when Maggie assumes Ellen is the cook hired for a dinner party happening that evening. Wanting to help her new daughter-in-law, Ellen doesn't correct Maggie. Although Val eventually finds out who the cook is, Ellen convinces him - blackmails really - that she can be of better assistance to Maggie as Ellen the live-in full-time household cook, than Mrs. McNulty her new mother-in-law. Ellen ends up being more than just a cook as as hired help, she is privy to many of the thoughts and schemes of those who don't want to see Val and Maggie's marriage succeed, namely Maggie's ex-boyfriend/Val's boss George Kalenger Jr., Val's ex-girlfriend Betsy Donaldson, and Maggie's snobbish mother Fran Carleton. Ultimately, Maggie finds out about the deception and decides to leave Val because she feels he didn't trust her to love someone of working class and he is only hiding his mother's identity to further his career. It isn't until Val risks a business deal by revealing Ellen's true identity to all that Maggie returns to her loving husband. Along the way, Ellen finds some personal happiness of her own.

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一组编纂字典的专家想知道真实的人们是怎样说话的，结果他们遇到了一位美丽的歌女……

唐（雷·米兰德 Ray Milland 饰）都不知道自己能否称自己为一个失意的作家，因为一个作品从来没有被公众所接受过的作家怎么能是作家呢？为了排遣心中的愤懑，唐选择了向酒精寻求安慰，殊不知，酒精只会让他的情况变得更糟。海伦（简·怀曼 Jane Wyman 饰）的出现将唐从酗酒的泥潭中拉了出来，她的温柔和善解人意温暖了唐孤寂的生活，也令他找到了心灵的归属，他决定重新振作起来。
好景不长，海伦的父亲对唐和女儿的关系十分不满，在他的眼中，唐只是一个一事无成的浪荡儿而已。感情遭到否定的汤再次陷入了酗酒的危机中，甚至动起了自杀的念头。面对心灰意冷的爱人，海伦能否再一次将唐从死亡边缘中解救回来呢？

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