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.

• DirectorGeorge Stevens
• Release9 March 1948
• Genre
  Family / Drama
• Duration2h 14m
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• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  7.1
  59 reviews
• Productions

  RKO Radio Pictures