Cocktails with Mimi

Typically she engages a stunt "waiter" to insult her guests and, specifically, to spill soup on the stuffed-shirt Calthorpes

But her daughter, Edie, fearing that her mother would never be able to stomach her future in-laws, has hired two actors to impersonate them - which works fine until the real Calthorpes arrive on the scene with their son

Thereafter the mistaken identities (and the fun) proliferate, until all is in a state of hilarious confusion

Fortunately things are eventually set straight, as is Edie-who learns some lessons in love and life which spare her from what could have been a most unhappy fate