[2] The manufacturers of Ponds Cream sought, via the company's advertising agency, "a prime-time serial that would depict the contemporary American domestic scene".
[1] Agnes Ridgway, who had written one-act dramas for the Rudy Vallee Hour was signed to write the program's scripts.
Nan Grey, the 24th actress to audition for the lead role, was selected to portray Kathy Marshall.
[3] Grey's signing was the first time a radio program's sponsor obtained the services of an actor or actress directly via a film studio.
[1] ***Summer replacement for Maxwell House Coffee Time[1] A review in the trade publication Variety described the program as "distinctly night-time in caliber", which it attributed to the quality of "writing that supplies the lines with lift".