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Based on the Broadway play I Remember Mama – which was, in turn, based on Kathryn Forbes’s book Mama’s Bank Account – the programme was a warm comedy-drama that was both a domestic piece and a period piece. Starring noted stage actress Peggy Wood in the title role, Mama concerned a family of Norwegian immigrants in 1910 San Francisco.
1948 Comedy drama. Synopsis. Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson (Irene Dunne) keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband (Philip Dorn) and a highly-educated lodger (Cedric Hardwicke) who reads Charles Dickens to the family every evening.
I Remember Mama closed on September 2, 1979, after a run of 108 performances. Synopsis. The Hansens are a Norwegian immigrant family living in San Francisco early in the 20th century. Papa, a ship’s carpenter, loses his job in the shipyards and returns to Norway for work.
