Stella Martin comes from a blue collar family but has dreams of a better life for herself. She meets and quickly marries Stephen Dallas, advertising manager at the mill where her father works. They have a baby girl, Laurel, but Stella doesn't heed her husband's advice. She's loud, dresses cheaply and drinks just a bit too much despite her boast that she has stacks of class. When Stephen gets a job in New York City, Stella and Laurel stay behind. Laurel grows into a beautiful young lady and spends a holiday with her father and his first love, the widowed Mrs. Helen Morrison and her three sons. Stella loves her daughter very much and comes to realize after a holiday at a fancy resort, that she is the only impediment to Laurel having the life she had always dreamed of for herself.—garykmcd