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Told In Flashback | Immigrant
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Best Supporting Actress | 1949 | Ellen
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1949
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1949 | Barbara Bel
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1949
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1949
The Robert Meltzer Award Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene | 1949
Best Written American Comedy | 1949
Best Written American Drama | 1949
Irene Dunne worked with dialect coach Judith Sater for two months to perfect her Norwegian accent. Dunne became so immersed in getting her character's voice down that she used the accent around her home with her family.
Despite garnering the best reviews of any RKO film released in years, the movie failed to turn a profit due to its high production cost ($3.068 million). It spawned a long-running CBS TV series that ran from 1949-57.
In order to physically submerse herself in the role of Mama, Irene Dunne wore no make up and used body padding to make herself appear heavier.
The play was produced on Broadway by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's producers purchased the rights for $2500 for each week of the play's run, up to $150,000, on the condition that the film would not be made until the play closed. The stage version ended up running for nearly two years. The original Broadway production opened on October 19, 1944 at the Music Box Theater and ran for 713 performances with a cast that included Marlon Brando in his Broadway debut.
Greta Garbo turned down the role of Martha around the same time she also rejected the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). She is reputed to have commented, "No murderesses, no mamas."
"Katrin Hanson: [reading the novel that she's just finished] "For long as I could remember, the house on the Larkin Street Hill had been home. Papa and Mama had both born in Norway but they came to San Francisco because Mama's sisters were here, all of us were born here. Nels, the oldest and the only boy, my sister Christine and the littlest sister Dagmar but first and foremost I remember Mama"."
"Katrin Hanson: But mama, wouldn't you *like* to be rich? Martha 'Mama' Hanson: I would like to be rich the way I would like to be ten feet high. It's good for some things, bad for others."
