My Little Margie
| My Little Margie | |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Frank Fox |
| Directed by | Nate Watt Hal Yates |
| Starring |
Gale Storm Charles Farrell |
| Theme music composer | Alexander Lazlo |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 126 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Roland D. Reed Hal Roach Hal Roach, Jr. Guy V. Thayer, Jr. |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Roland Reed TV Productions Rovan Films |
| Distributor | Official Films |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CBS (1952–1953) NBC (1953–1955) |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | June 16, 1952 – August 24, 1955 |
My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Angeles, California at Hal Roach Studios by Hal Roach, Jr. and Roland D. Reed.
My Little Margie premiered on CBS as the summer replacement for I Love Lucy on June 16, 1952, under the sponsorship of Philip Morris cigarettes (when the series moved to NBC for its third season in the fall of 1953, Scott Paper Company became its sponsor). In an unusual move, the series—with the same leads—aired original episodes on CBS Radio, concurrently with the TV broadcasts, from December 1952 through August 1955. Only 23 radio broadcasts are known to exist in recorded form.
Set in New York City, the series stars Gale Storm as 21-year-old Margie Albright and former silent film star Charles Farrell as her widowed father, 50-year-old Vern Albright. They share an apartment at the Carlton Arms Hotel. Vern Albright is the vice-president of the investment firm of Honeywell and Todd, where his bosses are George Honeywell (Clarence Kolb) and Mr. Todd (George Meader), whose first name is never mentioned. Roberta Townsend (Hillary Brooke) is Vern's girlfriend, and Margie's boyfriend is Freddy Wilson (Don Hayden). Mrs. Odetts (played by Gertrude Hoffmann on TV, Verna Felton on radio) is the Albrights' next-door neighbor and Margie's sidekick in madcap capers reminiscent of Lucy and Ethel in I Love Lucy. When Margie realizes she has blundered or gotten into trouble, she makes an odd trilling sound. Michael Richards of Seinfeld cites this as the inspiration for the occasional odd vocal utterances of his character on the program.
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