I Remember Mama

Directed by George Stevens (1948)

“Be quiet, Jessie!” says Mama (Irene Dunne) to her Viking battle-ax of a sister. “Maybe you don’t have things to do, I have!” What does she have to do, her husband asks? “I have to chloroform a cat.”

Mama, it seems, can do anything. Her littlest daughter loves animals, and her cat has been very sick. So Mama has got a job she doesn’t want, which is t…