在这部太太万岁喜剧/家庭片中,秀外慧中的好媳妇陈思珍（蒋天流饰）自与丈夫唐志远（张伐饰）结婚后，便把家里的人际关系处理得很好，持家有道。一日，思珍的弟弟陈思瑞（韩非饰）从台湾到上海省亲，邂逅志远的妹妹唐志琴（汪漪饰），两人一见钟情。然而因为陈父（石挥饰）不肯资助自己筹办公司的志远，却极力反对这桩亲事。思珍只得谎称唐家存有金条美钞，陈父才同意资助志远办起公司。不料发迹致富的志远却有了外遇，与姨太太（上官云珠饰）有染。思珍为了顾全丈夫名誉，只得委曲求全。未几，志远破产，谎言败露，两家人也因此闹翻。终于，思珍决定与志远离婚，却在律师事务遇见了秘密登记结婚的思瑞、志琴两人。面对真心相爱的一对有情人，思珍该何去何从。
由中国著名导演桑弧执导于1947年摄制的黑白影片《太太万岁》是小说家张爱玲的电影经典剧作。桑弧含蓄细腻的电影风格与张爱玲的剧作交相辉映。
Long Live the Wife, a lively and well-acted comedy, is celebrated fiction writer Eileen Chang's second script. Following immediately from Love without End (1947), it proved to be another financially successful collaboration with director Sang Hu for Wenhua Film Studio. The film is centred on the figure of Chen Sizhen (Jiang Tianliu) whose marriage to Tang Zhiyuan (Zhang Fa), an ambitious bank clerk and a typical Shanghai xiao shi min (petty urbanite), is dull. Their relationship is unromantic and she fails to bear him a son. Nonetheless she tries to be a good housewife. Their universe spins into turmoil when Tang starts an affair with a glamorous woman, Zhu Mimi (Shangguan Yunzhu), who cares for nothing but his money. A crisis ensues. Long Live the Wife reveals the impending collapse of patriarchal authority and women's attempts at extricating themselves from this social predicament. Chang's screenplay also radically underlines the ambiguity of moral choices.
假若张爱玲是那个”太太“。中国太太万万岁！。有意思的老电影。浮世的悲哀——《太太万岁》。《太太万岁》：值得不值得。张爱玲是个好编剧 ——谈《太太万岁》。吐槽 || 你们都不敢说这部张爱玲作品其实也是烂电影。红药水万岁。旧时玲珑月。张爱玲的世界。
