Snobby Aunt Deirdre (Cathy Lewis) had been introduced earlier in the first season. She did not hit it off with her brother George's housekeeper Hazel (Shirley Booth). Mostly because Deirdre's daughter Nancy sought Hazel out for advice about boys. Complicating matters was the fact that Nancy fell for Hazel's nephew Eddy, a relationship Deirdre vehemently opposed.
At the time Dierdre was visiting, it was revealed she lived in a posh home in Boston. In this episode which doesn't include her daughter Nancy, it is said Deirdre and her husband have just relocated from the city, deciding to buy a home in the burbs not far from where George (Don DeFore) and Missy (Whitney Blake) live. Deirdre stops over and announces she's hired an interior decorator to spruce up her new place.
In the next scene Missy arrives home from shopping. She has purchased an expensive crystal vase that will look nice in one of Deirdre's rooms. As Missy goes upstairs to change for dinner, Hazel and young Harold (Bobby Buntrock) admire the vase. When Hazel steps off to check on the food, Harold knocks the object off the table and it smashes into a bazillion pieces. Hazel takes the blame but now she will need to come up with cash to pay for the vase.
The following day a nice junk man named Charlie (Mario Siletti) shows up. Hazel attempts to sell him some family heirlooms to earn the money she needs. Charlie doesn't seem to be too interested in her second-hand items. She then pulls an old portrait out of her trunk. It was done by an artist named James Whitehead who based it on Hazel when she was a little girl. Charlie, who fancies himself more of an antiques dealer than a junk man, will do a favor and give Hazel the money she needs. He takes the items with him, including the painting.
It is then revealed that the painting may be worth a tiny fortune, since the artist had become quite well known. Hazel doesn't learn about this until later. The Baxters hear her mention Whitehead's name and look him up in an art dictionary. George thinks they can get the portrait back from Charlie. However, it was just sold it to another man- guess who- the interior designer Deirdre hired!
Deirdre's living room is now adorned with the painting of a little girl that she doesn't know is Hazel. One evening Deirdre's society friends come to her home for a party, and they all admire the painting. Naturally Deirdre is quite proud of it, until she learns it is Hazel they are all admiring and that the portrait came from a second hand shop.
This is a fun episode, written by Robert Riley Crutcher. It borrows an idea or two from Sidney Howard's stage play The Late Christopher Bean, which had already been turned into an MGM movie starring Marie Dressler.
At the time Dierdre was visiting, it was revealed she lived in a posh home in Boston. In this episode which doesn't include her daughter Nancy, it is said Deirdre and her husband have just relocated from the city, deciding to buy a home in the burbs not far from where George (Don DeFore) and Missy (Whitney Blake) live. Deirdre stops over and announces she's hired an interior decorator to spruce up her new place.
In the next scene Missy arrives home from shopping. She has purchased an expensive crystal vase that will look nice in one of Deirdre's rooms. As Missy goes upstairs to change for dinner, Hazel and young Harold (Bobby Buntrock) admire the vase. When Hazel steps off to check on the food, Harold knocks the object off the table and it smashes into a bazillion pieces. Hazel takes the blame but now she will need to come up with cash to pay for the vase.
The following day a nice junk man named Charlie (Mario Siletti) shows up. Hazel attempts to sell him some family heirlooms to earn the money she needs. Charlie doesn't seem to be too interested in her second-hand items. She then pulls an old portrait out of her trunk. It was done by an artist named James Whitehead who based it on Hazel when she was a little girl. Charlie, who fancies himself more of an antiques dealer than a junk man, will do a favor and give Hazel the money she needs. He takes the items with him, including the painting.
It is then revealed that the painting may be worth a tiny fortune, since the artist had become quite well known. Hazel doesn't learn about this until later. The Baxters hear her mention Whitehead's name and look him up in an art dictionary. George thinks they can get the portrait back from Charlie. However, it was just sold it to another man- guess who- the interior designer Deirdre hired!
Deirdre's living room is now adorned with the painting of a little girl that she doesn't know is Hazel. One evening Deirdre's society friends come to her home for a party, and they all admire the painting. Naturally Deirdre is quite proud of it, until she learns it is Hazel they are all admiring and that the portrait came from a second hand shop.
This is a fun episode, written by Robert Riley Crutcher. It borrows an idea or two from Sidney Howard's stage play The Late Christopher Bean, which had already been turned into an MGM movie starring Marie Dressler.
