The Family Nobody Wanted

The Family Nobody Wanted

The Family Nobody Wanted is a 1954 memoir by Helen Doss (née Grigsby).It retells the story of how Helen and her husband Carl Doss, a Methodist minister, adopted 12 children of various ethnic backgrounds ("white, 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.

It was featured in a 1956 episode of Playhouse 90 directed by a young John Frankenheimer and made into a 1975 TV movie starring Shirley Jones of Partridge Family fame.

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