Mother Knows Best is a true-story movie based on Lee Goldsmith. It aired on TV in 1997. The names and locations were all changed to keep the real story a secret. I found the basis of the movie in 2009 and interviewed the sweet granny who conspired to kill her son-in-law. The woman was a Florida socialite named Lee Goldsmith. The real story happened in Boca Raton. Mother Knows Best centers around a controlling mother who wants the perfect life for her daughter and sets out to have her new son-in-law permanently removed from her life. Joanna Kerns was fierce in her role as Celeste. Lee Goldsmith, a Florida socialite, hated her son-in-law so much that she hired someone to kill him. Goldsmith was anxious to find a suitable husband for her daughter, Arleen, so she placed an ad in the local paper: "Nice Jewish Girl Wants to Meet Nice Jewish Boy." David Brownstein is the man who answered the ad. But, Goldsmith could not bear the thought of her daughter marrying Brownstein because