I Remember Mama
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Movie Reviews of I Remember Mama
Movie Review: Mama
Summary: 5 Stars
Not yet viewed, rated on memory of movie seen over 55 years ago. VERY impressed then, want to see again as time permits.Movie Review: Forever classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this. I loved it when I watched it 40 years ago, and I love it now. All children should have to watch this.Movie Review: Good Old Fashioned Values
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a wonderful story. It embraces the old family values of yesteryear. A great movie for everyone to enjoy!Movie Review: I Remember Mama
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie. I watched the movie on television and knew I had to own it.Movie Review: From the Old Country to old San Francisco
Summary: 4 Stars
This was one of the last of the nostalgic, old-fashioned family films that had been so popular in the 1930's and early '40's but fell out of style in the rush for "realism" after World War II. It's 1910 in San Francisco, and Mama (Irene Dunne) and her husband (Philip Dorn), a carpenter, have lived in America for some 15 years, raising four American children--Nels (Steve Brown), 14, whose current greatest ambition is to go on to high school; Katrin (Barbara Bel Geddes), 12, who dreams of being a writer; Christine (Peggy McIntyre), 10; and little Dagmar (June Hedin), the animal-lover, who eventually declares her wish to become a veterinarian, and meanwhile takes in a tomcat she names Uncle Elizabeth, a dog who presents her with puppies, and a litter of five white bunnies. Their extended family includes Mama's sisters, overbearing Aunt Jenny (Hope Landin), whiney Aunt Sigrid (Edith Evanson) and her lame son Cousin Arne (Tommy Ivo), shy spinster Aunt Trina (Ellen Corby), and their Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka), a gruff "black Norwegian" who for many years has openly lived with his housekeeper (Barbara O'Neil) on his ranch north of the city. Based upon Kathryn Forbes's Mama's Bank Account (Harvest/HBJ Book), which is sometimes classed as a memoir and sometimes as a novel, this episodic and somewhat slow but very charming film follows the family fortunes as they struggle to live on Papa's salary and the contributions of their intellectual boarder Mr. Hyde (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), who introduces them to Dickens, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, Cooper, Kipling, and other great authors, see Dagmar through mastoid surgery and Aunt Trina to a happy union with Mr. Thorkelson (Edgar Bergen), nurture Katrin's ambitions, and keep up the most important traditions from "the Old Country." Dunne, who was nominated for Best Actress Oscar, shines as the stabilizing centerpost of a close-knit family and "the only one of my nieces that I can stand," as Uncle Chris declares. A quiet film that would make a great family view.