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Edgar Bergen | Peter Thorkelson | |
Philip Dorn | Lars Hanson | |
Irene Dunne | Martha Hanson | |
Barbara Bel Geddes | Katrin Hanson | |
Cedric Hardwicke | Jonathan Hyde | |
Oscar Homolka | ||
Barbara O'Neil | Jessie Brown | |
Rudy Vallee | Dr. Johnson | |
Oskar Homolka | Uncle Chris Halverson | |
Florence Bates | Florence Dana Moorhead | |
Peggy McIntyre | Christine Hanson | |
June Hedin | Dagmar Hanson | |
Steve Brown | Nels Hanson | |
Ellen Corby | Aunt Trina | |
Hope Landin | Aunt Jenny | |
Edith Evanson | Aunt Sigrid |
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Producer | Harriet Parsons
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Writer | DeWitt Bodeen
John Van Druten Kathryn Forbes |
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Mama didn't leave the Old Country and move into the Larkin Street house to become rich. She left because all her siblings and in-laws were already setting down roots in the USA. Family was where Mama always fit best. Right in the heart of things. Director George Stevens made his transition from breezy prewar films to the acclaimed masterworks of his later career with this tender charmer about a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco. Irene Dunne (as Mama), Barbara Bel Gedde (the matriarch of a very different family in TV's Dallas). Oscar Homolka and Ellen Corby (Grandma on The Waltons) all earned Academy Award nominations, giving performances embraced in the smile-making glow of a bygone era, ties that endure and, most of all, Mama. |
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