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I Remember Mama (1948)
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17 March 1948 (USA)
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Tagline:
You'll just love...MAMA!
Plot:
The ups and downs of a Norwegian immigrant family, circa 1910. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 5 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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3 nominations
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(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)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 11 August 2005)
Barbara Bel Geddes Dies of Lung Cancer
(From WENN. 11 August 2005)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
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134 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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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.
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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.
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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".
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Referenced in George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him (2001) (V)
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Sovnen
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Funny, warm movie about Norwegian family in San Francisco before WW I. How Irene Dunne lost the Oscar to Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) is a mystery. Dunne is so totally wonderful in this film--and what a film. Beautifully directed by George Stevens, he captures all the humor and life of this family. Stevens also uses techniques like fore- and background action--there's always several things going on in every scene. He also uses overlapping dialog 20 years before Robert Altman made it fashionable. And what a perfect cast. Irene Dunne (maybe her best performance ever) stars with Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, and Ellen Corby (heartbreaking yet funny as Trina)--all Oscar nominated. Then there is Philip Dorn, Edgar Bergen, Rudy Vallee, Hope Landin, Edith Evanson, Barbara O'Neil, Florence Bates, Cedric Hardwicke, and Steve Brown. The novel by Kathryn Forbes spawned this movie, a play, a TV series, and finally a Broadway musical. At one point Greta Garbo was considered as Mama, and even Marlene Dietrich sought the role. Thank goodness they gave it to Irene Dunne! The aunts as played by Corby, Landin, and Evanson are wonderful. And oh BTW, Homolka lost to Walter Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, while Corby and Bel Geddes lost to Claire Trevor for Key Largo.