I Remember Mama

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.

• immigrant
• based on novel or book
• san francisco, california
• based on play or musical
• love
• poverty
• told in flashback
• immigrant family
• 1910s
• mother and daughter