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Ellen McNulty leaves 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 they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
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 Vals wages. At the same time, Vals 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 Vals upcoming nuptials as she doesnt want to upset Vals life with his new wife. She also doesnt want to meet Maggie until she feels she has enough money at least to make herself "presentable" to someone of Maggies social class. Once Ellen feels that is the case, she goes over to Val and Maggies 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 doesnt 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 dont want to see Val and Maggies marriage succeed, namely Maggies ex-boyfriend/Vals boss George Kalenger Jr., Vals ex-girlfriend Betsy Donaldson, and Maggies snobbish mother Fran Carleton. Ultimately, Maggie finds out about the deception and decides to leave Val because she feels he didnt trust her to love someone of working class and he is only hiding his mothers identity to further his career. It isnt until Val risks a business deal by revealing Ellens 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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