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...Most of all," says daughter Katrin, "I remember Mama," Mama is kind, firm, and resourceful, and has four children to look after. There are Katrin, the oldest, who wants to be a writer; Christine, blonde, the prettiest member of the clan; Nels, the young man of the house; and Dagmar, the precocious, animal-loving seven-year-old girl. Naturally, Mama doesn't want her children to fear poverty, so she invents a neat little myth about a bank account. But of course, no one ever "goes to the bank" because Mama always figures a way out of every emergency...
...Mama's bank account" that gave Kathryn Forbes the title for her novel. Van Druten adapted her idea for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and the result is a very appealing family portrait that remotely reminds one of "Life With Father,' but makes the Clarence Day hit look like a Radcliffe Idler production...
...Druten has written and staged with the tasteful touch that made "Voice of the Turtle" a Broadway sensation. His characterizations in "I Remember Mama" have a human quality that few in the American theatre have achieved: the irresistible simplicity of good, kind, honest people...
...Mama's Boy. Holtz has been married twice but, as in the case of George Jessel, Milton Berle and the Marx Brothers, the best known member of his family is his mother, a shrewd, picturesque old lady with whom he lived for years between marriages. Whenever his mother met one of his new flames, she purred: "She's nice. But I don't think she's as pretty as the last...
...wrote Bedtime Story for Maurice Chevalier and Mama Loves Papa in collaboration with Arthur Kober; for 20th Century he wrote The House of Rothschild and Moulin Rouge, both highly successful pictures. By 1935, when Fox merged with 20th Century, Johnson was already regarded as a fairly important asset. By the time he decided to go independent, last year, he was Fox's highest-priced writer ($3,500 a week), was doing the lion's share of the studio's most important pictures, and was privileged to turn down the most desperately fat contract Hollywood has ever offered...