True to Life is a 1943 American comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Mary Martin, Franchot Tone and Dick Powell.

[2] Writers Fletcher Marvin and Link Ferris must improve their scripts for a radio drama or face the wrath of their sponsor, a major soap company.

[2] She mistakenly believes that he is unemployed and poor, and takes him back to lodge at her house while he seeks work.

He meets her family including her eccentric inventor father and gruff, layabout uncle.

He has to do everything he can to prevent the family finding out that he is turning their everyday lives and conversations into entertainment, a task not helped when his writing partner Fletcher turns up believing that the show could do with the plot development of a romantic rival.