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Adopted Father
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Sherry lures Monte out for a walk. Sherry and brother Gary once did this to test Monte as a stepfather-candidate — but their "trial run" backfired!
Sherry Jackson is Terry in The Danny Thomas Show, which will be seen over CBS-TV, Mondays, at 9 P.M. EDT, beginning October 7, as sponsored by General Foods Corp.
she's appeared on more single television programs than she can remember — Ed Sullivan, Jack Carson, Fireside Theater, Private Secretary, Lux Video, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry — name it, and she's probably been on it at least once.
It was back when Sherry was about ten years old that Montgomery Pittman made his entry on the scene. Sherry was working in "The Lion and the Horse," in which Steve Cochran was playing the male lead. Monte, a former actor turned screen writer, was a pal of Cochran's, and visited the set often. Sherry fell for him — hard. She decided that this was going to be her new stepfather.
"Sherry would mention this friend of Steve's whom she'd met on the set, but I never paid much attention," Rita Pittman recalls. "For several years, all three of the children had been working hard to marry me off, and I'd grown accustomed to their big buildups for whatever new candidate they'd picked.
"I remembered humoring Gary once, when he insisted that I meet the driver of his school bus. I knew what he had in mind, though he thought he was being awfully subtle about the whole thing. When I did meet the driver, it was all I could do to keep from giggling. He was every bit as nice as Gary had claimed, but he couldn't have been a day over twenty, and I got this hilarious mental picture of him 'fathering' three youngsters aged 8, 10, and 15. But the children were serious about it. They wanted a father (Continued on page 76)
Monte's writing and directing talents are of real help to the teen-age actress.
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