Two Girls Named Smith is an American television situation comedy that was broadcast on ABC from January 20, 1951, through October 13, 1951.
Fields, and Ruth McKenney considered the show's characters and premise to be too much like those of the book My Sister Eileen and the film of the same title, which they created.
[2] The suit, filed in Federal Court in May 1951, said that Lewis and Bernard Schubert had a deal with the plaintiffs that permitted use of the book "under specified conditions", but that those rights were to be terminated if the resulting script was not used prior to November 25, 1950.
[5] Schubert adapted the film for ABC in 1950, making a pilot titled Ruth and Eileen on July 13, 1950, but the episode was never broadcast.
[6] A review in the trade publication Billboard called Two Girls Named Smith "a well-cast, slickly produced, cleverly scripted concoction that should find its way into many TV homes.