Pillow to Post

It's the middle of WWII on the US home front. With her father, the owner of a southern California oil well supply business, having problems finding men to work as salesmen due to most qualified men serving in the military, Jean Howard is eventually able to convince him to let her work as such despite she having no real discernible job skills and no work experience. Determined to make a sale after a few false starts, she, in the town of Clayfield upstate, ends up making a potential sale to Earl Clark, nicknamed Slim, their subsequent date that evening which may seal the deal. She isn't as lucky finding someplace to stay in Clayfield as the only accommodation with an available room is the Colonial Auto Court, which is only open to military men stationed at the nearby base and their wives. She first lies to anyone having to do with providing the accommodation saying that she is married to a lieutenant, then second has to find a lieutenant to pretend to be her husband. She is eventually only able to find one single lieutenant, Don Mallory, who after initial skepticism on his part, she is able to convince to lie by making that necessary appearance as her husband after which he can leave. Complications ensue as they have to carry the lie further in one of the couples living there being his CO, Colonel Michael Otley, and his wife of thirty years, Kate. Thus, they have to be one thing to the colonel and his wife, all the other military couples there and the accommodation managers, another thing to Slim, another thing to her father, and yet something else to Don's mother, who arrives unexpectedly, placing the auto court houseboy, Lucille, in a tizzy trying to keep things straight.