Hello Mother, Goodbye!

A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother's consternation.

Cast

Bette Davis

as Mother

Kenneth Mars

as Son

Lurene Tuttle

as Leona

Jack De Mave

as Bobby Mullen

Ellen Weston

John Fiedler

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