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Kaye's show lasted one season, but Arden's display of comic talent and timing set the stage for her to be cast in her most well-known role, Madison High School English teacher Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks.

Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a television version of the program from 1952 to 1956, and in a 1956 feature film.

Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin ( played by Gale Gordon ), and nursed an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton ( played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler and, on television, by Robert Rockwell ).

Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna ( Walter Denton ), Gloria McMillan ( Harriet Conklin ), and Jane Morgan ( landlady Margaret Davis ) played the same roles on television.