Interesting that there are several recent movies about an actor being hired by a woman to play her beau for the benefit of the woman's family. The play BEAU JEST, which ran for years off-Broadway and the film of which is slated for release this year, has the following plot:
"When Sarah Goldman, a lovely young school teacher in Chicago, wants to please her parents, she invents a boyfriend whom she believes will be the man of her mother's dreams. When her parents insist on meeting the man, Sarah hires Bob, an actor, to pretend to be her "beau". The masquerade works flawlessly for a time and brings comic situations, but in the end, their lives are irrevocably changed."