Details

Release year: 1957

Storyline

The misadventures of a single adoptive father raising a teenage niece with the help of his manservant.

Top credits

Cast

John Forsythe — Bentley Gregg
Noreen Corcoran — Kelly Gregg
Sammee Tong — Peter Tong
Bernadette Withers — Ginger Farrell, Loomis, Mitchell, Ginger, Ginger Loomis, 'Troop Leader' Grabowski, Ginger Mitchell

Did you know

• This is the only prime time series ever to run in consecutive seasons on three major televisions networks: on CBS from 1957 to 1959, on NBC from 1959 to 1961 and on ABC from 1961 to 1962.

• The pilot New Girl in His Life (1957) aired on May 26, 1957.

• In an interview, John Forsythe revealed that they had originally decided on another young actress, Helen Green, to play his niece Kelly. But as they finished watching the auditions, Forsythe's friend, Ronald Reagan, was sitting in the back of the theater, and he told them they were making a mistake and were hiring the wrong girl. He told them they needed a more down-to-earth girl for the part, "someone who looks like a niece, not Hollywood's idea of a niece". At first, they told Reagan that the idea was ridiculous, but as they walked back to the office, they came to the realization that he had a point, that Noreen Corcoran "was everybody's daughter". So they looked at the film again, concluded that Reagan was absolutely right, and gave Noreen Corcoran the part.