故事发生在位于英国的一座小小村庄之内，女佣朵拉（梅尔·托特纳姆 Merle Tottenham 饰）和她的雇主布拉姆森夫人（梅·惠蒂 Dame May Whitty 饰）生活在一起，朵拉的男友丹尼（罗伯特·蒙哥马利 Robert Montgomery 饰）深得布拉姆森夫人的信赖，虽然夫人的侄女奥利维亚（罗莎琳德·拉塞尔 Rosalind Russell 饰）一直告诫姑母要多多提防这个年轻的小伙子，但布拉姆森夫人显然听不进去她的忠告。
布拉姆森夫人的律师贾斯汀（艾伦·马歇尔 Alan Marshal 饰）给布拉姆森夫人带来了一笔钱，夫人将这笔钱存进了自己的保险箱里，这一举动被丹尼尽收眼底。一个可怕的阴谋在他的脑海里成型了。

In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets her uncle to cancel Bill's orders and has him reassigned to break enemy codes. In his new assignment he becomes involved with beautiful Russian spy Olivia Karloff, who is working for the Germans, and must juggle Joel's affection and his pursuit of Karloff's connections to retrieve a stolen code book.

1962 musical comedy-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving daughter (Lavinia). But Lavinia's ex-suitor, Adam Brant, has become Christine's lover, and together Adam and Christine plot to poison Ezra. When they succeed, Lavinia turns to her brother Orin to help bring the lovers to justice, but when they succeed, Orin goes mad and his suicide note may come between Lavinia and her new suitor, Peter Niles

《哦老爸，可怜的老爸，妈妈把你挂在衣橱里，我好难过》是Arthur Kopit创作的第一部话剧。该剧于1962年在外百老汇的Phoenix Repertory Theatre首演，后来于1963年到百老汇的Morosco Theatre演出47场。1967年，这部话剧被改编为同名电影，由Richard Quine导演，Rosalind Russell、Robert Morse和Barbara Harris主演。
Arthur把这部剧称为“三幕的闹剧”，故事讲述母亲到加勒比地区一个奢华的旅游胜地旅行，带着她的儿子和死去的丈夫（被保存在他的棺材里跟着一起旅行）。

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

1940 film by Howard Hawks