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I Remember Mama
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Director:
George Stevens
Writers:
Kathryn Forbes (novel)
John Van Druten (play)
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Release Date:
17 March 1948 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Family more
Tagline:
You'll just love...MAMA!
Plot:
The ups and downs of a Norwegian immigrant family, circa 1910. full summary | full synopsis
Plot Keywords:
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Awards:
Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Actress Barbara Bel Geddes -- "Miss Ellie" -- Dies at 82
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 11 August 2005)
Barbara Bel Geddes Dies of Lung Cancer
 (From WENN. 11 August 2005)
User Comments:
They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore!!!! - Pity. more (50 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

Irene Dunne ... Martha 'Mama' Hanson

Barbara Bel Geddes ... Katrin Hanson
Oskar Homolka ... Uncle Chris Halverson
Philip Dorn ... Lars Hanson
Cedric Hardwicke ... Jonathan Hyde (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Edgar Bergen ... Peter Thorkelson
Rudy Vallee ... Dr. Johnson
Barbara O'Neil ... Jessie Brown
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
Tommy Ivo ... Cousin Arne
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Stanley Andrews ... Minister (uncredited)
George Atkinson ... Postman (uncredited)
Lela Bliss ... Head Nurse (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum ... Man (uncredited)
Howard Keiser ... Bellboy (uncredited)
Alice Kerbert ... Girl (uncredited)
Peggy Kerbert ... Girl (uncredited)
Peggy McKim ... Girl (uncredited)
Constance Purdy ... Fat Night Nurse (uncredited)
Cleo Ridgely ... Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Ruth Tobey ... Girl (uncredited)
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Directed by
George Stevens 
 
Writing credits
Kathryn Forbes (novel "Mama's Bank Account")

John Van Druten (play)

DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay)

Produced by
Harriet Parsons .... producer
George Stevens .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Roy Webb 
 
Cinematography by
Nicholas Musuraca 
 
Film Editing by
Robert Swink 
 
Art Direction by
Carroll Clark 
Albert S. D'Agostino 
 
Set Decoration by
Emile Kuri 
Darrell Silvera 
 
Costume Design by
Gile Steele (costumes: men)
Edward Stevenson (costumes: women)
 
Makeup Department
Gordon Bau .... makeup supervisor
Hazel Rogers .... hair stylist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Hollingsworth Morse .... assistant director (as John H. Morse)
 
Sound Department
Terry Kellum .... sound
Richard Van Hessen .... sound
 
Special Effects by
Russell A. Cully .... special effects
Kenneth Peach .... special effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Fred Bentley .... camera operator (uncredited)
Ralph Clement .... grip (uncredited)
Gaston Longet .... still photographer (uncredited)
 
Editorial Department
Tholen Gladden .... associate editor
 
Music Department
C. Bakaleinikoff .... musical director
 
Other crew
Ivan Moffat .... executive assistant
Richard Kinon .... script supervisor (uncredited)
 
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
134 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Norwegian | Latin | French
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:Approved
Filming Locations:
San Francisco, California, USA
Company:
RKO Radio Pictures more

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Trivia:
The previous play was produced on Broadway by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's producers purchased the rights for $2500 for each week of the play's run, up to $150,000, on the condition that the film would not be made until the play closed. The stage version ended up running for nearly two years. The original Broadway production opened on October 19, 1944 at the Music Box Theater and ran for 713 performances with a cast that included Marlon Brando in his Broadway debut. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the aunts are sitting at the table drinking coffee, Jenny is on the right and Sigrid are on the left. After Jenny asks, "Where are the children?" and gets up, she and Sigrid have switched places. more
Quotes:
Katrin Hanson: [reading the novel that she's just finished] "For long as I could remember, the house on the Larkin Street Hill had been home. Papa and Mama had both born in Norway but they came to San Francisco because Mama's sisters were here, all of us were born here. Nels, the oldest and the only boy, my sister Christine and the littlest sister Dagmar but first and foremost I remember Mama". more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Enfant Terrible: A Conversation with Patty McCormack (2004) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Sovnen more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore!!!! - Pity., 30 March 2006
9/10
Author: marcusdrobinson from United States

Thirty years before Barbara Bel Geddes would achieve international renown for being "Miss Ellie", the dastardly J.R Ewing's mother on the queen of trashy nighttime soaps "Dallas", and nearly ten years AFTER Barbara O'Neal became a legend playing Scarlett O'Hara's mother in "Gone With The Wind", they got together and made this truly moving picture with Irene Dunne. You would think it was some little low-budget flick; it's got that feel to it. Who would've thought it cost three million dollars to make! Anyway, I'm a dude, see, and I'm not much into the melodramas and tear-jerkers though i do love old movies, but, one night when I couldn't sleep I caught this on TCM or AMC and decided to watch it. I was SURE it was going to be some boring old flick that would help me fall sleep. BOY WAS I WRONG! After 10 minutes, yo, I was hooked! (It's almost EMBARRASSING but oh, well). You find yourself loving each and every one of these characters - Mama is a priceless pearl (we need ten million like her in this day and age), the kids, Papa, the spinster aunt who gets married, the feisty older aunt who was bossy, Katryn is a doll baby who you want to just marry and take home to Mama, and as for Uncle Chris and Miss Jessie (Barbara O'Neal's character), oh, they did it for me. When Uncle Chris went...boy, it was hard to keep that facewater from flowing! That's GOT to be one of the best death scenes in movies! You felt like you were there. Check it out, this is a movie about real folks living real life without all of the sentimental garbage. You get real family emotion here! Can you dig it? Of course you can!

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