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Mother | World War I
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The movie is based on housewife Louise Randall Pierson's best-selling autobiographical book by the same title, and then screenplay, based on her family's life. The character Frank Pierson refers to her real-life son who enlisted to fight in World War II, and later went on to become a famous film/TV writer and director.
The youngest son, Frank Pierson, went on to write the screenplays for Cool Hand Luke, Cat Ballou and Dog Day Afternoon. He won the Oscar for Dog Day Afternoon.
Bette Davis turned down the lead role in this film.
Warner Bros. bought the rights to Louise Randall Pierson's story for $35,000 in 1943 ($514,000 in 2018).
The UCLA Film and Television Archive has three versions of this film. 117 minutes, which is the version shown on TCM, 126 minutes and a long version of 150 minutes.
"Louise Randall Pierson: What's the matter with us, for heaven's sake? We have brains, ambition, background, we work like dogs. Maybe native Americans are extinct and don't know it. Maybe they oughtta put us on a reservation like the bison."
"Louise Randall Pierson: Every time I get my ship on an even keel, something goes bang!"
