Life With Father (1953)
Life With Father (1953)
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Life With Father is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from November 1953 to July 1955. The series centers on the patriarch of an upper-middle-class New York household family. It was the first live color program for network TV to originate in Hollywood.
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Cast & Crew.
Leon Ames
Lurene Tuttle
Dorothy Bernard
Marion Ross
Harvey Grant
Harlan Day
Steven Terrell
Clarence Day, Jr.
Malcolm Cassell
John Day
Eilene Janssen
Actress
Freddy Ridgeway
Actor
Richard Hale
Actor
Details.
This TV Show Is About.
new york
based on play or musical
family relationships
stockbroker
family
sitcom
19th century
Scripted
Wiki.
Life with Father is an American television sitcom that ran from 1953 to 1955. It starred Leon Ames as Clarence Day Sr. and Lurene Tuttle as his wife Lavinia. It began broadcasting in color in 1954, and was the first live color TV series for network television originating in Hollywood.
It was based on the long-running Broadway play of the same name, which had been adapted into a 1947 film, based on New Yorker articles and books by Clarence Day reminiscing about his family in late-19th century New York City.