Leave It to the Girls
| Leave It to the Girls | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Talk show |
| Created by | Martha Rountree |
| Presented by |
Paula Stone Maggi McNellis |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 23 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
NBC (1949–1951) ABC (1953–1954) Syndicated (1961–1962) Syndicated (1981-1982) |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Original release | April 27, 1949 – March 27, 1954 |
Leave It to the Girls is an American radio and television talk show, created by Martha Rountree, and broadcast, in various forms, from the 1940s through the 1980s.
The series was originally a radio program airing on the Mutual radio network starting in 1945 with hostess Paula Stone. The show was created by Meet the Press creator Martha Rountree as a serious-minded discussion of the problems of career women, but soon became a comedic commentary on love, romance, and marriage from an almost-all female panel — one man was always on the panel to provide the male viewpoint.
The NBC television network broadcast the show April 27, 1949, to December 30, 1951; Maggi McNellis replaced radio show hostess Paula Stone. Later, the series left NBC and was picked up by the ABC television network, who broadcast it from October 3, 1953, to March 27, 1954.
A syndicated weekday daytime version, also hosted by Maggi McNellis, was broadcast 1961-62.
Another version, called Leave it to the Women, produced by Chuck Barris, and hosted by Stephanie Edwards, aired 1981-1982 in syndication.
Stage and film actress Paula Stone was one of the hostesses for the radio version of the show, along with Elissa Landi and Maggi McNellis. The NBC, ABC, and the 1960s television versions were all hosted by Maggi McNellis, a 1930s supper club singer, a 1940s radio show hostess for her own shows, and a New York City society hostess through the 1980s. All the female panelists could be characterized as "glamorous, well-dressed, showbiz types". Some of the female television panelists were Eloise McElhone (1921-1974), Vanessa Brown, Florence Pritchett, Lisa Ferraday, Ann Rutherford, Harriet Van Horne, and Janet Blair. McElhone was also host of the DuMont series Quick on the Draw and Eloise Salutes the Stars.
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