 The success of the film had encouraged MGM to create further movies  involving the Smith family and was to be based on further tales of  Sally Bensons family. MGM wanted to make sort of a deluxe color  group of serials in the spirit of the popular Andy Hardy series. A  sequel named Meet Me in Manhanttan was in the works in which the  Smith family actually moved to New York. This happened in real life  to Sally Bensons family. However, the movie never got out of  planning stages and was never made.