Fresh
A charmer, nevertheless, directed and acted with real delicacy.
Tom Milne, Time Out
I Remember Mama
You'll just love...MAMA!
1948 · 2h 14m · Approved
Drama, Family
Directed by
George Stevens
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I Remember Mama
Overview
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
Director and cast
- George Stevens Director
- Irene Dunne as Mama
- Barbara Bel Geddes as Katrin
- Oskar Homolka as Uncle Chris
- Philip Dorn as Papa
- Cedric Hardwicke as Mr. Hyde
- Edgar Bergen as Mr. Thorkelson
- Rudy Vallee as Dr. Johnson
- Barbara O'Neil as Jessie Brown
- Florence Bates as Florence Dana Moorhead
- Peggy McIntire as Christine
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Producer-Director George Stevens has transferred the John van Druten play, via a free-wheeling script by DeWitt Bodeen, in all its genial personality to the screen.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Thin, manipulative, and overlong, but frighteningly effective.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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