Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOTHER KUSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN...
...successful producer of such hits as South Pacific and Call Me Madam. Worshiped by his children and idolized by his five wives, he exuded vitality; he was incomplete without a telephone in his hand, making a million-dollar deal or selling a Garbo, a Fonda, or a Hemingway. Mother was Margaret Sullavan, the husky-voiced star of the 30s and '40s. Though she was not a classic beauty, men found her bewitching: "The fairest of sights in twinkling lights is Sullavan with an a," rhapsodized Ogden Nash...
...Your mother is a remarkable woman, the bravest person I know," Leland told Brooke. "But she can't tolerate what she can't understand." For his part, Leland was an absentee father, too rigid in his own way to come to terms with marriage and children. The divorce was amicable enough for the parents, but devastating to the three kids...
Middleaged, heavyset, slow of step and quiet of speech. Mother Kusters is betrayed by her eyes. Even when she is hurt and puzzled-which is much of the time in this movie-there is something lively and shrewd in them. One senses that in tragic circumstances she has found a challenge worthy of the reserves of fortitude and understanding she has been treasuring up through a dreary little life...
...pregnant wife flee to Finland to avoid the scandal, while her daughter uses all the sudden notoriety to try to further her tacky career as a cabaret artiste. But the party is not really interested in clearing the Kusters name, just in exploiting it as propaganda. Finally, Mother Kusters goes off with a building janitor, who offers not ideological support but home cooking and a sympathetic...