[7] Overseen by Mary Webb Davis, who was head of a modeling school,[8] the woman learned correct posture[7] and "how to walk, talk, gesture and wear makeup.
Walter Ames wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "It's a dramatic moment bringing ohs and ahs from the studio audience that must be repeated in many homes all over the country.
"[8] Contestants included: In one case, the program enabled a reconciliation between a winner and her husband, who had been separated for three weeks when she appeared on the show.
[11] Viewers' desire to appear on Glamour Girl resulted in the show's receiving as many as 250,000 letters in one month, with each writer wanting to be selected as a participant.
[5] During the first week of October 1953, Glamour Girl offered to provide tips for improvements for viewers who sent letters and enclosed photographs of themselves.
The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, named as defendants NBC, Ross, McCoy, and Frank Cooper Assoc.
The suit said that Westmore submitted his program to NBC in the fall of 1951 and that it had been broadcast on TV stations in Miami, Birmingham, and Cincinnati.
[14] A review in The New York Times said that by carrying Glamour Girl, NBC's morning TV schedule had "deteriorated to an unbearably low level", calling the program "a show that exploits human misery and intentionally victimizes the innocent people who appear.
"[3] Dwight Newton, writing in the San Francisco Examiner, called Babbitt "as courteous and friendly an emcee as any nervous TV guest could hope to encounter", but he said that the program was "unoriginal, unimaginative, uninspired.