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10/10 TV Language English Pages 267 Publisher Little, Brown and Company | 4.3/5 Goodreads 5/5 Barnes & Noble Publication date 1954 Originally published 1954 Page count 267 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Family Nobody Wanted is a 1954 memoir by Helen Doss (née Grigsby). It retells the story of how Doss and her husband Carl, a Methodist minister, adopted twelve children of various ethnic backgrounds besides White Americans (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American). The couple appeared on a 1954 episode of You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx, where they talked about their story.
The story was featured in a 1956 episode of Playhouse 90 directed by a young John Frankenheimer and made into a 1975 ABC Movie of the Week starring Shirley Jones of The Partridge Family fame.
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