The Family Nobody Wanted

The Family Nobody Wanted

First edition
Author Helen Doss
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Little, Brown
Publication date
1954
Pages 267

The Family Nobody Wanted is a 1954 memoir by Helen Doss (née Grigsby). It retells the story of how Doss and her husband Carl, a Methodist minister, adopted twelve children of various ethnic backgrounds besides White Americans (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American).[1] The couple appeared on a 1954 episode of You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx, where they talked about their story.[2]

The story was featured in a 1956 episode of Playhouse 90 directed by a young John Frankenheimer and made into a 1975 ABC Movie of the Week starring Shirley Jones of The Partridge Family fame.

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