


She was taking singing lessons, looking at the possibility of live performances, stage shows and whatever else might be out there. Originally she wanted to go on performing, but didn’t know exactly what form that would take. She had a great social life, great clothes and a father who tried to rein her in, but didn’t have much success doing it.”ĭetails David, “She said she really didn’t want to do another show. Again, not that she was having affairs or anything like that, but she’s basically a young woman living in New York who basically lives as she pleased. Not that she’s promiscuous in any way, but she lived in a luxury apartment, she always has great clothes, she had probably at least two to three dozen different men that were romantic attachments for her in the series. I’ve jokingly said that sometimes it feels like the Sex and the City of that era. It’s a comedy about a young woman who has a lot of male admirers, has a very indulgent father and gets to live a very fun, enjoyable life with new clothes and new cars. She turns it back around on him and she comes out victorious at the end. The setup is different in that more often on My Little Margie she’s trying to scheme something and he tries to stop her. It’s based on the idea of a father who knows his daughter has the upper hand and he keeps fighting against that, but it never pays off for him. “If you watch the Margie episodes,” he elaborates, “it’s really her father who ends up chagrined at the end of the episodes and resigned.
