I REMEMBER MAMA
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1948 movie, based on the Broadway stage play, is about a Norwegian woman looking back fondly on her turn-of-the-century childhood as a loving member of a family of Norwegian immigrants. Irene Dunne (pictured) stars as Mama, and Barbara Bel Geddes – later to play the matriarch on TV’s Dallas – plays Katrin, the teen girl who would grow up to do all that remembering. Personally, I remember I Remember Mama, the movie, for one other distinction: It spawned a TV series called Mama a year later, in 1949, which starred Peggy Wood as Mama and Rosemary Rice as Katrin. Mama is the first TV series spun off from a movie – and tonight, TCM shows that movie.