The Loretta Young Show - S7 E9 - "Second Spring"

Episode # 5920 SECOND SPRING
Original air date: 2-21-60

Loretta Young stars as Betty Rogers, whose family are all distraught when they learn that she is an expectant mother again... at a time when her husband, played by Don Haggerty, has failed to get a promotion, her daughter, played by Marlene Willis, is making elaborate wedding plans and her 15-year-old son, played by Malcolm Cassell, wants a car. It takes caring neighbors, played by Angus Duncan and James Pamell, and a family doctor, played by George Eldridge, to restore harmony in the Rogers’ household.

Before he began appearing in films in 1947, Don Haggerty was a Brown University athlete who would eventually appear in twenty-one films, including nineteen in 1955 and 1956 as a regular, the newspaperman Marsh Murdock, on the ABC/Desilu western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian in the title role. Usually cast as tough policemen or cowboys, he appeared in a number of memorable films including Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), The Asphalt Jungle (1951), Angels in the Outfield (1951) and The Narrow Margin.

The B-movie actor continued to appear in films until the early 1980s. He died on August 19, 1988 at age 74 in Cocoa Beach, Florida

Eighteen-year-old Marlene Willis appeared mainly as a guest star in various narrative television series in the 1950s and '60s, such as The Andy Griffith Show; Maverick; Bourbon Street Beat; Wagon Train; Laramie; The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; The Dick Powell Theatre; and The Loretta Young Show. She also appeared in the theatrical features Rockabilly Baby (1957) and Attack of the Puppet People (1958), where she sang the theme song in addition to portraying a character in the film.. Willis died of cancer at age 40 on March 29, 1982, in Los Angeles, California.

Malcolm Cassell makes a return appearance on the series in this episode as the Rogers' son, Chuck. He was born on March 16, 1939 in Los Angeles, and was best known for Room for One More (1952), The Rifleman (1958) and Pirates of Tortuga (1961).

Trivia fact: When Freddie Leisten outgrew the role of John on the CBS series Life With Father, he was replaced by Malcolm Cassell.

Although character actor George Eldridge never became a major performer he played in over 180 movies during a career that stretched from the 1930s to the early 1960s. He also had a prolific television career during the 1950s. He was the older brother of character actor John Dornin Eldredge. George Eldridge died on March 12, 1977, Los Angeles and is buried at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in California.

Angus Duncan was born in Copenhagen, Denmark but immigrated to America and beca=me an actor and writer best known for "...and justice for all" (1979), The Young Runaways (1968). He died on March 22, 2007 in Los Angeles, California from cancer at age 71.

James Parnell was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and was best known for Star in the Dust (1956), One Step Beyond (1959) and War Drums (1957). He died on December 27, 1961 in Hollywood, California at age 38.

Trivia fact:; James Parnell was the son of actors Effie Laird and Emory Parnell and the father of actor Dennis Parnell.

Directed by Richard Morris

Teleplay by Richard Morris from the story by Phyllis Lee Peterson

Cast:
Betty Rogers Loretta Young
Donna Rogers Marlene Willis
Chuck Rogers Malcolm Cassell
Bill Rogers Don Haggerty
Tom Angus Duncan
Doctor George Eldridge
Fred James Pamell

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