Keeping Company is a 1940 American drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford and Irene Rich.
[2] Harry C. Thomas and his wife Susan have a hard time keeping track of their three very different daughters: Evelyn, the eldest, ready for marriage; Mary, engaged to car dealer Ted Foster; and Harriet, an unpredictable adolescent trying to catch up to her sisters, and always on the hunt for ice cream.
Mary's engagement prompts Harry and Susan to give their daughter advice about married life.
Humiliated, Ted goes into hiding and Mary must arrange and attend the company picnic alone.
Ted reappears and tells everyone that he has managed to save the Hellman company from ruin by selling the cars to another dealer.