Home - Arlene Francis 03-25-57 Part 1/3

Another great one for all Arlene fans! :D The first half hour of an episode of "Home" that aried 25 March 1957 :D

Imdb.com: "Host Arlene Francis welcomes the Turner family from Montgomery, Alabama. In addition to being a talented painter, husband and father Jack Turner is an accomplished folk singer, demonstrating his talents performing a number of railroad songs assisted by his younger daughter, Dixie. In another segment, golf fashions through the ages are modeled"

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[EDH1712]

These are awesome. Not sure how you got them, but I'm glad you have them and that you are very kindly sharing them!! Thank you! :)

[Barry I. Grauman]

"HOME", the mid-morning equivalent of "THE TODAY SHOW", lasted on NBC from 1954 through '57, co-hosted by Arlene Francis and Hugh Downs [who became host of "TODAY" in 1962, through 1971]. These days, a fourth hour of "TODAY" in the same time period [10am(et)] features Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb...the less said about that, the better.

[shaftsbury94]

great post of a more innocent time

[americanmanhood]

She really was something wasn't she.

[Dominick1956]

I stumbled across this quite by accident. It is always so refreshing to see a show where Arlene Francis was into. Thank you for sharing this with everyone.

[wntoply6]

thank you for the information, i'll certainly check out the book.

however, i've one small bone to pick. during it's day HOME was not little-known. i was a child then & remember it as very popular at the time. i've never forgotten the program. it was the highlight of rainy/snowy mornings for us kids...next to cartoons!

unfortunately, like many good things time's not been kind & history hasn't remembered it as it should! even "i love lucy's" has been relegated to 2nd best today!

[wntoply6]

lol, arlene was a true yankee. in fact she was a bostonian...born and live there until the age of 7 when her family did indeed move to nyc.

[wntoply6]

i'm proud to say arlene, the co-host of HOME and barbara walters, the first female co host of THE TODAY SHOW, were both boston women who contributed in a big way in the pioneering of american network tv.

[TheAverycross]

Ah, the beautiful, lively, jazzy, and quick-witted Arlene Francis at her best! Thanks so much for this treasure of a post

[tomitstube]

great period stuff. i think homer simpson had one of those niagra recliners. i always noticed how arlene (a new yorker) would always make fun of fake southern accents on what's my line. anyone think ole jack turner here (with a daughter named 'dixie') was on the "white citizens council" in alabama? you know, the one that haley barbour says was just a benign southern business group during the civil rights era?

[tomitstube]

~ funny story. tippy got the best of everyone.

[fergy429]

It was probably in the Fall of 1957 when I was 9 that I appeared on the Arlene Francis Show (with Hugh Downs) with my dog Tippy. There was a 5 minute segment at the end of each show for a kid and their pet. Tippy did everything BUT the tricks she was so good at, the most memorable being - using the stage as a doggy toilet. We can laugh about it now - but wasn't funny then! I think Arlene was a bit perturbed.