My Little Margie (Episode 1) Reverse Psychology
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Margie uses a book on reverse psychology to get Vern to drop Roberta, and he uses it to get her to dump Freddie. But they each think their scheme has backfired when they all end up on a train to Greenwich. Margie and Freddie are on board to stop Roberta, whom they see carrying a wedding gown (for her boss), from eloping with Vern; Vern overhears them and thinks they're about to elope.
Guest Stars:
Mildred: Eileen Stevens
I watched this as a kid. Loved it. it's still sweet, innocent, and lovely. Thanks so much.
Ginny Lorenz, same here I watched it when I was a kid, it was a favorite.
I was 9 and wanted to be just like Margie. I loved her beautiful outfits and her zany antics.
I met Gale Storm at a show years ago. She was great and her grand daughter was absolutely stunning.
As comic Robert Klein described Gale Storm: "My Little Margie had the metabolism of a hummingbird. " Very funny show and all great actors.
Josephine Cottle (Gale Storm) was 30 years old when she began portraying the 21 year old Margie.
Thanks for these old shows! Such clarity, too! These were before my time by about ten years, but are never on tv.
I think remember watching these as afternoon re-runs when I was a kid circa 1957-58. I vividly recall Margie, Vern (Dad), Mr. Honeywell & Miss Odetts but I don't seem to remember Roberta & Freddie...Enjoy very much...
bdokey2, I must have watched the '57 -'58 reruns, I’m too young to remember it playing in '52.
Same with Sky King & Annie Oakley
I really like Gale Storm. She's great in this role.
No laugh track...........bliss!!!
As a matter of fact,Ginny it’s the initial sitcom without a laugh track.
"MARGIE" wasn't the first filmed without one. Roland Reed produced several sitcoms, beginning in 1950, without a laugh track: Stu Erwin's "TROUBLE WITH FATHER" and "THE BEULAH SHOW" were two of them. He started adding laugh tracks to "MY LITTLE MARGIE" (and Stu's program) in its final season.
Originally telecast on June 16, 1952, as a summer replacement for "I LOVE LUCY" (for the same sponsor, Philip Morris).
Barry I. Grauman it said 54 in the credits. It must have been a typo? 😀
Nothing like world of B & W, “charming” & calming in every respect.
Retro-sanity.
A great theme song with full orchestration. Not many intros like this one thank you for posting
With pizzicato violins!
It was actually a cue from Alexander Laszlo's "Structural Music" production music library: "Bows and Strings In Teasing" (aka "Ballerina's Caprice").
I went to school with Gail Storm two boys, Petter and Paul. The whole family was a joy to know. Miss the good old days of T V .
this show was recommend to me im so happy it was. thank you for taking your time to post.
thank you so much for taking the time to post this
I vaguely remember this show. I do remember that sound Margie made when she found herself in trouble.
My favorite show way back when...watched it in the morning before I went to school at PS 255 in Brooklyn NY !!
In the intro she says her father is "almost 50". He looks like someone in their 60's by today's standards. I'd forgotten how much more quickly people aged back then.
Yeah, even in the '70s-'Archie & Edith Bunker', 'Maude', etc were all in their 40s!!!
Jeff B He was only 52 when this show started but sure looked older.
He (Charles Farrell) was quite the heart throb in the 1920's.Quite the dashing out door all masculine type. Like DouglasFairbanks. Strange….I see a lot of people in their early fifties that lookmuch older. Through drugs or poor diet or smoking and heavydrinking...or just through hereditary...….USA people are obsessed with youth and never aging.Can't defeat it, catches up with everyone....
@@janethartwig774 The grey hair & mustache didnt help. Raising little Margie probably made him feel a hundred.
@@brucemarsico6 in the '20s... not in the '50s. Well, I guess I can see it as a young guy. His voice even sounded old! Back then I guess people just aged "gracefully" (i.e.-just letting theselves act old). Like on the tv commercials where people are becoming their dad after they buy a certain insurance or whatever it is!
Something about the theme song that makes me feel like I'm going back to the most innocent days of the '50s
The storyline's are sometimes a little simple and silly. But a great show. I always watched it as a kid and enjoyed.
This show had to have been popular on the radio before this first episode, because it's entirely in mid-stride! I have the first season, and at no time did they look like they weren't used to doing this. The 2nd episode may be even funnier than this one; just utter chaos.
Gale and Charlie co-starred on the radio version, beginning in December 1952 (with a different supporting cast of radio actors). It ended when the TV series did, in 1955.
Charles Farrell was a stunningly handsome man in his younger years! Out of curiosity I looked him up on Wikipedia and also looked at his pics on google images.
My, my, it's Miss Hillary from the Abbott & Costello. 😁
She was originally featured during the first season of their syndicated TV series, which was also filmed at Hal Roach Studios during 1951 and '52. After the first 26 episodes were produced, Lou decided to take a different approach to filming the show for season two- and Hillary was "out". She then became a semi-regular on "MARGIE".
+Barry I. Grauman I already knew that, Barry; I'm a fan of Bud & Lou. 😒
MY LITTLE MARGIE was originally a summer replacement for I LOVE LUCY and did not to into syndication until later.
Actually Hillary was in season two I think partly for two episodes, but she certainly was there. According to IMDb, she was just in episode 3.
I love this show.
This is another TV show, from the early days of TV----------I don't remember it ---------don't know if I ever saw it, but I do know, those days of early TV were wonderful. ---------MJL
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I love thIs show, watching every one! Thanks for showing all the shows!
Loved that show!
Herman Munster was very upset when they cancelled this show. (Actually go here from a Munster's episode.)
My god, this was beautiful.
Brings back so many smiles and laughs from my childhood. Vernon was a lot like my Dad. Not perfect but a good person. TV was much better than now and we really took it for-granted. Young people today don't know what they missed growing up in the 50's and 60's. It seems like society has devolved. The Media is too violent and grimly serious. The PC Left is ruining life. Everybody has a chip on their shoulder.
Clarence Kolb was an excellent actor. Gale Storm and Hillary Brooke were really hot. I love this show. By the way, if you want to see Hillary Brooke as an evil villain (as corrupt as she is beautiful), watch The Woman in Green. It's a Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes movie, and it's here on RUclips. Love RUclips. Wonderful invention.
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heavenofinvention I'll never forget seeing that movie years later after being an avid Margie fan and thinking, how could Hillary Brooke be so evil? She certainly was beautiful! In my twenties, I got to meet Miss Storm when she toured in Cactus Flower---what a thrill!
I agree with what you wrote, and am an admirer of Hillary Brooke also. In case you haven't already, you might like to check out "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" (1943), which is on RUclips (Full Movie) and showcases Hillary Brooke in an unusual way. She plays a soft and feminine sort of role (a sympathetic character), which was unusual for her. She usually got type-cast into different types of roles ("ice queen" types). BTW, the RUclips poster that has full movie of what I'm recommending is FEATURE FILMS (the name of Y-Tube Channel, that is). Recommended, for any fans of Hillary Brooke.
@@gentleoldmoviefan5680 Thanks for the tip, but I think I’ve seen all the Rathbone/Bruce movies. I agree, Brooke could play sweet and charming, as in her recurring role in the first season of the Abbot and Costello sitcom. She lives in the same rooming house as the boys, and Lou has a crush on her. She calls him Louis rather than Lou. Very charming.
@@QueenBee-gx4rp Lucky you. That would be thrilling. She was a very talented performer.
The father was "almost" 50? Wow! What a rough life he must have had!
Charles Farrell volunteered for the navy during WW2; his hair turned grey during his war service. Check out photos of him when he was a star of late silent and early sound films. He was gorgeous!
Holy smokes! I just looked up images of him, what a hottie!
Well, with a daughter like Margie, your hair would turn white, too!
This takes me back...how the mighty [TV] have fallen!
Talk about Enmeshment, hahahah!~ LOVE
Excellent show !
The Munsters brought me here.
I hope you post more soon ;)
It was so innocent then. Never thought anything weird ( vis-à-vis) Freudian theory, Greek drama, etc.. This funny sit-com of my day seems creepy since the death of ethics and morality in current times.
Remember the beautiful Hillary Brooke in that great film "Jane Eyre" co-starred Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles. Hillary played the money grubber Blanche.
I will definitely have to watch more of this! I love Lucy brought me here. For those who may not know, my little Margie was introduced as a summer replacement for I Love Lucy. (I’m sure it’s been mentioned somewhere in these comments LOL)
For MLM fans, i’m sure it was nerve-racking for the entire production team and talent to know that they were replacing the number one sitcom! Do you think it helped or hindered the show? I don’t know much about this series. Like I said, I will definitely have to watch more of it.
:56 After Vern says, "I've got a problem," it sure looks like the camera's about to move to the left to Margie -- then realizes Vern's not quite done, and keeps it back on him ("...believe me, I've got a problem.").
Can't believe she doesn't work. Single young women worked then as well.
Roberta: "The 'Boy' in the elevator ?" Ah the 50's
Joseph Petrino That was disgraceful. I was hoping that they would have treated him with respect.
@@1943ofour Don't get bent outta shape just cause everybody Black wasn't a muscle-bound superstar.
Charles Ferrell's acting was much better in the first episode. The others do not reflect this as if it was the result of rushing through it, which according to Gale Storm, they did to make the episodes quickly.
I too was born in the 50s, and grew up watching this. It doesn't hold up too well, to put it mildly, but I always liked Gale Storm. Lately I've been enjoying Amber Ruffin's show on Peacock. Though I have no reason to believe she's ever seen or heard of My Little Margie, her persona definitely rings the Margie bell. (So far, she hasn't done Gale's "G-g-g-g-g-g" thing - if that ever happens, we'll know where it came from!)
My Little Margie tells a story about a headstrong yet mischievous 21 year-old teenage girl with a rubber face named Margie Albright who lived in an apartment at the Carlton Arms Hotel in New York City with her widowed father,
Vern Albright who happens to be a 50 year-old vice-president of the investment firm of Honeywell and Todd where his bosses that's consisting of George Honeywell and Westley Todd. Margie is shown with an ability to make a odd trilling sound by blowing her trademark shrill two fingered whistle in order to get everyone attention whenever everyone's, especially herself in trouble.
Throughout the episodes in the My Little Margie tv show, Margie Albright who is determined to try and rescue her widowed dad from being married to a female gold-digger, decides to make a plan to get rid of the female gold-digger by tricking her into declining her widowed dad's offer to marry him and distracts her to find another husband to be married with which she finds her boyfriend.
Wait, Margie is supposed to be 21? WOW. She looks about 40. What was her problem with her dad? Her dad can't do anything without her going off on him. I know the show was named after her, but I totally did not like her. Found her way too annoying with her overbearing.
Lol
I want the Albright apartment
Possible "tag" for episode- with Margie and Vern in picture frame, surrounded by a pack of Philip Morris, and one in an ashtray:
MARGIE: "Gee, Dad, thanks for bailing Freddie out!"
VERN: "Don't thank me- I wasn't looking forward to it."
MARGIE: "But Freddie is really a NICE guy."
VERN: "Well, maybe I should have had YOU arrested, too, for meddling in my affairs when I keep telling you NOT to."
MARGIE: "Oh, Dad, I could have YOU arrested for trying to break up Freddie and me!"
VERN: "Do you REALLY mean that....or are you using 'reverse psychology' again?"
MARGIE: (secret grin) "What do YOU think?"
VERN: (sighing, to camera) "Well.....that's my little Margie."
Wasn't that in the original??? Pretty good!
14:25 "The *boy* in the elevator..."??????
Aunt Gail.
No laugh track? Is this an unsweetened or pre-sweetened version?
8:37 this guy looks like Ralph Bellamy.
Not really,since he’s Charles Farrell.
VERN HOW DARE YOU KISS LOU COSTELLOS GIRLFRIEND.
Our song hmm ,an there's you know who. This suppose to be funny. We know he's 50, an she's 21. Where's hazel. Reading is just fine. Get it i Don't .