The Girl Next Door

Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home and hosts a garden party that is disrupted by smoke from next door. She storms over to confront her neighbor, comic-strip artist Bill Carter, who has devoted himself to his strip and to raising his ten-year-old son Joe since his wife's death. Joe bases the strip on their everyday lives and prides himself on its honesty. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, Joe feels hurt, especially as Bill spends more father-son time with Jeannie. After Bill cancels a trip to Canada, Joe writes to the syndicate, pointing out that the strip's Canada plotline isn't honest since they didn't go.