 Herman J. Mankiewicz (qv) is given onscreen credits for  "characters", which undoubtedly referred to the movie  _Keeping Company (1940)_ (qv), but characters in that movie had  different surnames. However, Ann Rutherford (I) (qv),  Virginia Weidler (qv) and Irene Rich (I) (qv) also played family  roles in that movie, but Guy Kibbee (qv) replaced  Frank Morgan (I) (qv) as the family patriarch. Although a series  based on the family was planned, no other film was ever made.