The Affairs of Martha (1942) on Netflix
Approved19421h 6mComedyRomance
A newspaper column reports that one of Rock Bay's maids is writing a book about her employers. Each family fears exposure. Martha Lindstrom, the Sommerfields' maid, keeps her authorship quiet.
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Plot summary
Rock Bay, an exclusive Long Island neighborhood, is shaken when a newspaper gossip column reveals that one of its maids is writing a book about the families she works for. Since she is not named, every household worries that its secrets will be made public. Dr. Sommerfield and his wife Sophia are distraught, while their teenage daughter Miranda is delighted. The cook Mrs. McKissick gathers the neighborhood servants, who agree to stand together against employers trying to spy on them. The writer is the Sommerfields' own maid, Martha Lindstrom, and she calls on her publisher, Joel Archer, hoping he will quit stirring up interest in the coming book. When the Sommerfields' son Jeff comes home after eighteen months among the Eskimos with his fiancée, the mathematician Sylvia Norwood, Martha is upset and hides it.
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