An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Beulah Bondi | ... | Lucy Cooper | |
| Victor Moore | ... | Barkley Cooper | |
| Fay Bainter | ... | Anita Cooper | |
| Thomas Mitchell | ... | George Cooper | |
| Porter Hall | ... | Harvey Chase | |
| Barbara Read | ... | Rhoda Cooper | |
| Maurice Moscovitch | ... | Max Rubens | |
| Elisabeth Risdon | ... | Cora Payne | |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Nellie Chase | |
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Ray Mayer | ... | Robert Cooper |
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Ralph Remley | ... | Bill Payne |
| Louise Beavers | ... | Mamie | |
| Louis Jean Heydt | ... | Doctor | |
| Gene Morgan | ... | Carlton Gorman | |
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At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands? Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
7 October 1937 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Years Are So Long See more »Edit
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Mr. Horton, Hotel manager: Only when you're happy. How many children have you?
Pa: Five of them.
Mr. Horton, Hotel manager: Really! I'll bet they've brought you a lot of pleasure!
Pa: [Ironically] I bet you haven't any children.
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(1910) (uncredited)
Written by Leo Friedman, Harold Rossiter and Beth Slater Whitson
Played by hotel band in ballroom and later sung by Victor Moore in cab
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Nellie's arm jumps from her ear to her lap when she says, "I'll have to talk to Harvey about it." See more »Quotes
Pa: Fifty years go by pretty fast.Mr. Horton, Hotel manager: Only when you're happy. How many children have you?
Pa: Five of them.
Mr. Horton, Hotel manager: Really! I'll bet they've brought you a lot of pleasure!
Pa: [Ironically] I bet you haven't any children.
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Soundtracks
Let Me Call You Sweetheart(1910) (uncredited)
Written by Leo Friedman, Harold Rossiter and Beth Slater Whitson
Played by hotel band in ballroom and later sung by Victor Moore in cab
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I've also taped this movie off of TV (Thank you, Turner Classic Movies!) but would love to see it on DVD. The restraint with which this story is told is really quite impressive, but the ultimate result is devastating. As the arrangements with their adult children unravel, even a surprisingly pleasant and romantic day on the town for our elderly couple fails to give us any hope for a happy ending. The performances are uniformly fine, with lovely work done both vocally and with facial expressions; for instance, keep an eye out for Faye Bainter's last look at her mother-in-law. Bainter became one of my favorite character actors after I saw her work as a sympathetic daughter-in-law with troubles of her own.
I'm not being nearly eloquent enough, so let me just say that if you ever get a chance to catch this film, watch it!