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.

Irene Dunne
as Mama

Barbara Bel Geddes
as Katrin

Oskar Homolka
as Uncle Chris

Philip Dorn
as Papa

Cedric Hardwicke
as Mr. Hyde

Edgar Bergen
as Mr. Thorkelson

Rudy Vallee
as Dr. Johnson

Barbara O'Neil
as Jessie Brown

Florence Bates
as Florence Dana Moorhead

Ellen Corby
as Aunt Trina
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The "Hansen' family arrive in San Francisco from Norway at the start of the twentieth century. Under the guidance of their matriarch "Mama" (Irene Dunne) the family set down roots and begin to live their lives in their new home - and for the next 2¼ hours we are immersed in a chronicle of their tria...