The Smith's of Hollywood was billed as "a usual family doing average things," the exception being that this family lived in the film capital. This setting brought out numerous guest stars (Lucille Ball, William Holden, Ann Sheridan, etc.), unusual for a transcribed offering. Actress Jan Ford, who played the daughter , was in reality Helen Koford: she experimented with several stage names before settling on Terry Moore, with which she had a lukewarm film career._{John Dunning}