 Gildersleeve's character was in many other films before "The Great Gildersleeve" show and movies.Abigail Uppington is in the film "County Fair" along with Harold Peary, and his future radio show co-star Shirley Mitchell (who also played Leila Ransom in "The Great Gildersleeve"); the Uppington character also appeared in "Barnyard Follies".In 1953, Marian Jordan's periodic health problems necessitated the shortening of "Fibber McGee and Molly" into a nightly fifteen-minute program, recorded without a studio audience in single sessions, the better to enable Jordan to rest.