They showed this on Turner Classic Movies today as part of their Mother’s Day programming.

It’s a great screwball comedy that involves a newly wed couple. The husband’s mother comes to work in the couple’s new home as a maid, but the wife has no clue she’s hired her mother-in-law.

Thelma Ritter plays the mother-in-law with so much charm that she steals the movie. Ritter was a mother herself, who put aside her career to raise a family. Because of this, she was 42 before she was ever in front of a camera. The Mating Season won her her second of six Oscar nominations for best supporting actress.

This was an enjoyable, cute movie featuring a good performance by one of my favorite actresses, Thelma Ritter (probably best known to modern audiences as Jimmy Stewart’s nurse in “Rear Window”).