The Broadway production starred Melvyn Douglas as Howard Carol, a middle-class husband and father of three girls, one of whom, Ginger (Nancy Malone), wants to try out for her school's football team.

At first supportive of his daughter's goal, he begins to feel pressure from Ed Hoffman (Philip Loeb), the president of the bank where he works, and the community at large.

[3] Loeb had been blacklisted from television and radio several years earlier and the production was his last major role before he committed suicide on September 1, 1955.

[4] On 6 October 1955, at 8:30 p.m., Jack Benny starred in a one-hour CBS television adaptation, broadcast for Shower of Stars, with Ruth Hussey, Gary Crosby, Edward Everett Horton, Mary Wickes, Larry Keating, John Hoyt, Ronnie Burns, Olive Sturgess, Carol Leigh, and Janet Parker as Ginger.

Original playwright Alexander wrote the script for the pilot, which starred Candy Moore (in her first television role) as Ginger, with Roberta Shore as older sister Joan, Maggie Hayes as Agnes, former radio star Karl Swenson as Howard, and Margaret Hamilton as the Carols' maid, the pilot was not picked up as a regular series.