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- KATHRYN FORBES (1908-1966) based the characters and adventures of Mama's Bank Account on her own life growing up in San Francisco. Between 1944 and 1979, her book served as the inspiration for the play, film, television series, and Richard Rodgers musical, I Remember Mama.
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Mama’s Bank Account is a novel by Kathryn Forbes, published in 1943. The story focuses on the thrift and practicality of “Mama,” the matriarch of a Norwegian family in early twentieth-century San Francisco. Katheryn Forbes was the pen name of author Kathryn McLean.
A series of 17 pretty realistic non-gimmicky stories about a Norwegian immigrant family (Mama and Papa being the immigrants, children American born) in San Francisco in the early twentieth century - mostly happy ones with quite a few bittersweet moments, sprinkled with some humor.
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Peggy Wood as Marta HansenJudson Laire as Papa Lars HansenRosemary Rice as Katrin HansonRuth Gates as Aunt Jenny“I remember the big white house on Steiner Street, and my little sister Dagmar, and my big brother Nels, and Papa. But most of all, I remember Mama.” Mama was the story of a Norwegian-American family living in San Francisco in 1910. The story is told through the eyes of daughter Katrin (Rosemary Rice). The show opened looking through the pages of t...
Ruth Gates died in 1966 of a heart attack, Carl Frank in 1972, Kevin Coughlin in a car accident in1976, Peggy Wood in 1978 of a stroke, Judson Laire in 1979, and Alice Frost in 1998.
Mama's Bank Account, [7] [8] [9] her best-known work, was published in 1943 and revolved around the daily struggles and aspirations of a Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s. [10] Forbes' book served as the inspiration for John Van Druten's 1944 play I Remember Mama.
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Oct 11, 2015 · 1943: castro street becomes nationally known as the setting of mama’s bank account, a novel by local norwegian-american author kathryn forbes. it inspires the broadway play i remember mama as well as a 1948 movie and 1950s television series. but where on castro street did they live?
This was considered to have been based on Forbes' own childhood. Forbes, born Kathryn Anderson, was the granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants. She was a writer best known for Mama's Bank Account, a fictionalized memoir about a Norwegian family in 1920s San Francisco.
Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes. Harcourt, Brace (1943), 204 pp. A woman looks back on her teenage years in an immigrant family from Norway. In a series of short stories, set in San Francisco in the 1920s, she tells of problems faced and overcome by her mother.
