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A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.

Preparing for the arrival of an important visitor, a wacky housekeeper follows her employer's instructions with humorous results.

When Amelia Bedelia volunteers to fill in as director of a third-grade Thanksgiving play, she misunderstands everything from one girl's desire to play a big role to an opening night wish that she "break a leg," but all is well in the end.

Working in a big house owned by two refined ladies to support her mother and brothers, a young scullery maid in early-twentieth-century England borrows books and dreams of a better life before saving her employers from a kitchen fire.