Now showing

"Mama" - Mama's Nursery School (50's TV Show)

Classic TV1955Approx 26 MinutesPublic Domain
Poster for "Mama" - Mama's Nursery School (50's TV Show)

About this film

1955 Episode of the 50's Sitcom/Drama "Mama" (Also known as "I Remember Mama"). This popular show was about a Norway family who moved to America back in the early 20th Century. This episode is titled "Mama's Nursery School". ****************************** Info from Wikipedia: Mama was a weekly Maxwell House-sponsored CBS television comedy-drama series which ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957. Based on the Kathryn Forbes memoir Mama's Bank Account, which inspired the 1944 John Van Druten play and subsequent 1948 film I Remember Mama, it told the ongoing story of a loving Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s through the eyes of the elder daughter, Katrin Hansen (Rosemary Rice), who was seen looking through the pages of the family album in the opening and closing of each episode. In addition to veteran stage actress Peggy Wood in the title role, the cast included Judson Laire as Papa, and Dick Van Patten as brother Nels. The youngest child, Dagmar, was portrayed first by Iris Mann, then by Robin Morgan (who later became a radical feminist activist and poet), and finally Toni Campbell. Also featured were Ruth Gates, Carl Frank, Alice Frost, Malcolm Keen, Roland…

Subjects

50's TV; 1950's Television; American History; I Remember Mama;

View on archive.org ↗

More from this pool

Classic TV

See all →