I Remember Mama

Ben Mankiewicz Intro for I Remember Mama

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces I Remember Mama, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces I Remember Mama, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces I Remember Mama, 1948.

Dave Karger introduces I Remember Mama, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces I Remember Mama, 1948.

Cranky Norweigan Uncle Kris (Oscar Homolka) intrudes with San Francisco Dr. Johnson (Rudy Vallee), who's determined that young Dagmar needs an operation, then gets told off by Marta (Irene Dunne, title character) in George Stevens' I Remember Mama, 1948, based on Kathryn Forbes' novel.

A grown-up Katrin (Barbara Bel Geddes, assuming the voice of Katnryn Forbes, from her semi-autobiographical novel) reading her own prose, flashes back to San Francisco ca. 1910 and memories of her mother, Marta (Irene Dunne), opening George Stevens' I Remember Mama, 1948.

A theme from the original novel by Kathryn Forbes, Barbara Bel Geddes in the narrator’s voice, recalling impecunious boarder Hyde (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) reading to her Norwegian immigrant family, headed by Irene Dunne, the title character, in George Stevens’ I Remember Mama, 1948.

Norwegian immigrant Irene Dunne (title character) her husband (Philip Dorn) in support, threatens elder sisters (Edith Evanson, Hope Landin), with retaliation if they are unkind to fourth sister Trina (Ellen Corby), who has confided marriage plans, in George Steven’s I Remember Mama, 1948.

Unmarried Norweigan immigrant Aunt Trina (Ellen Corby) drops by unaccompanied, to the surprise of her sister Marta (Irene Dunne, title character) and family, in early 20th century San Francisco, in George Stevens' I Remember Mama, 1948.

Norwegian immigrants face the trials of family life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco in George Stevens' I Remember Mama, 1948, starring Irene Dunne and Barbara Bel Geddes.