NBC launched the 30-minute five-day-a-week daytime serial Our Five Daughters on 2 January 1962 – ousting the long-running From These Roots– and the trouble and suffering began immediately.
To the swelling tones of the organ, trouble engulfed all five daughters plus their mother and father (he was hurt in an accident) as well as a son-in-law and an uncle. And all this on the occasion of the wedding anniversary of the mother and father . . .
Former silent movie star Esther Ralston played the mother, Helen Lee, with competency. Michael Keen was the father, Jim (pictured).
The titular daughters were Mary (27), married and expecting a baby; Barbara (25), the “steady one”; Jane (23), just finished law school and hunting for a job and love; Marjorie (18), a boy-mad flirt; and Ann (16), a high school student worried about exams, grades and boys (pictured below).
Helen Lee Esther Ralston Jim Lee
Michael Keen Mary Lee Weldon
Wynne Miller
Barbara Lee
Patricia Allison Jane Lee
Nuella Dierking Marjorie Lee
Iris Joyce Ann Lee
Jacqueline Courtney Don Weldon
Ben Hayes Cynthia Dodd
Joan Anderson Driscoll
Jon Cypher George Barr
Ralph Ellis Kip Nichols
Ed Griffith Sophie Greer
Astride Lance Mona Wilkins
Pat Peardon Greta Hitchcock
Janis Young Uncle Charlie
Robert W. Stewart
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