Description

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.

Cast

Irene Dunne

Barbara Bel Geddes

Oskar Homolka

Philip Dorn

Cedric Hardwicke

Edgar Bergen

Rudy Vallee

Barbara O'Neil

Florence Bates

Ellen Corby

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