I even love your noise (but not while Papa’s napping, all right, honey?),” Albert said of his daughter. Though there were significant bumps once Maria joined the Albert family, she was so dear to their hearts. The couple spent weeks on paperwork, but were ultimately able to bring Maria to Los Angeles. “How do we go about adopting her?” My words came quickly.Īlbert phoned Margo to let her know they would be adopting a little girl. I suddenly knew that this was not the first time you had been shown to a prospective parent. He was watching me nervously, apologetically, retaining the nun to whisk you away when the American exploded. You stood with your feet planted wide apart, your eyes on the floor. I stared at her, gulped, and closed my eyes.įor there in front of me you stood-the toughest, most defiant, dirtiest four-year-old I had ever seen. The door opened and a nun led in a little girl. I wondered if he heard my heart pounding as we waited. Abruptly he picked up the phone and spoke a few words in Spanish. The director scrutinized me for a moment. When the director suggested Albert look at a daughter, he agreed. The following morning, he sat in an orphanage discussing the logistics with the director. ‘Lord,’ I said, ‘I’ll take that first child.’” He knew which one belonged with us.”Īlbert continued: “But how would I know? How would I be shown His choice for our family? As soon as I asked the question I knew the answer too: God’s choice would be the first child I saw. ![]() “Did I really have more confidence in myself than in Him? The children in the orphanage were His children, just as Margo, and Edward, and I were. I’d asked Him to guide me in lesser matters, why not in this one?” Albert wrote. “I remembered what I’d long ago learned, that the only valid position for viewing a decision is eternity, that the only One who sees from there is God. The idea of him “picking” a child, though, didn’t sit right with Albert until he realized he wasn’t the one who would select his future child. The next day, Albert hopped on a plane to Madrid, Spain, to go to an orphanage to pick a child to adopt. We found one in England, one in France, and one in Spain–and you couldn’t ask for finer youngsters,'” Albert recalled in an article from 1962. ‘We have three adopted kids,’ he said, ‘and we didn’t wait years and years to get them. ![]() “That evening in Paris I was sounding off to Art on the slow pace of adoption. The years rolled on, Albert says, but they still were on the waitlist until Albert was meeting with a colleague in Paris on one evening. When he and his wife, Margo, welcomed some Edward into their home, Albert knew their family wasn’t complete.īut as the years rolled on, the couple was unable to conceive, and they added their names to adoption agencies around the United States. GREEN ACRES actor Eddie Albert knew he always wanted a big family. Note: This story is part of our Faith in Hollywood series. GREEN ACRES Star Eddie Albert Shares How God Brought Him His Beloved Daughter ![]() This episode is “The Old Trunk” and it originally aired March 19, 1969. Goldie is hilarious, and Eileen Heckart is superb, and Eddie Albert Jr. Published: AugPhoto of Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor from the television comedy Green Acres. She is a talkative spoiled walcky woman and I didnt liked that.
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