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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
US
Genres:
Family, Drama
Release:
March 1948
Production:
RKO Radio Pictures
Cast:
Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Philip Dorn, Cedric Hardwicke, Edgar Bergen, Rudy Vallee, Barbara O'Neil, Florence Bates, Ellen Corby, Hope Landin, Edith Evanson
Tags:
immigrant, based on novel or book, based on play or musical, love, poverty, told in flashback, immigrant family, 1910s, mother and daughter, san francisco
