From Mirage (1965) to Nanny and the Professor (1970)

Following the movie, Father Was A Fullback, 1949, starring Fred McMurray and Maureen O’Hara, the 1965 movie, Mirage, came on.  I’d never seen it before.  And what struck me were the number of stars from that era, starting with Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, with music by Qunicy Jones, Michael Jackson’s old producer.  I was delighted to see Walter Matthau.  God, I loved watching him on the screen growing up co-starring with Jack Lemon.  And there was George Kennedy, playing a hitman, maybe the best role I’d ever seen him in.  He’s a big boy.  

The editing of the film was interesting, the flashbacks that made up Peck's fragmented memory collecting in an effort to piece together a whole picture.  It was quite good.  Scenes from 1960s New York was also interesting for it still showed much of the midcentury architecture that made so many of the large cities of the U.S. interesting.   

At the 59:45 mark, Peck and Baker, running from a murder scene, find a child home alone waving the two of them into her apartment to abscond from the police.  That child actress is Eileen Baral, who co-starred in the 1970s sitcom, The Nanny and the Professor, which I watched and liked quite well as a kid and a show that I have completely forgotten about since until tonight after seeing her in Mirage with Gregory Peck. 

Wikipedia explains that 

The series starred Juliet Mills as Nanny Phoebe Figalilly, Richard Long as Professor Harold Everett, and in season 3 Elsa Lanchester in the recurring role of Aunt Henrietta. Figalilly was housekeeper for Professor Everett and nanny to his three children: Hal, the intellectual tinkerer, played by David Doremus; Butch, the middle child, played by Trent Lehman; and Prudence, the youngest, played by Kim Richards.^[2]

What I remember the most from that series was the little girl's name, Prudence.  But it looks like Eileen Baral played only a minor recurring role and not as a regular on the show.  Her character's name was Francine Fowler.