Top cast:Olivia Colman,Emma Stone,Rachel Weisz
Director:Theodore Wharton
Genre:Short
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2000
Storyline:The family was surrounded by a colorful procession of friends and relatives, for example, Mama""s bullying, overbearing and boisterous older brother Uncle Chris Halverson (Oskar Homolka) - a ranch owner in Ukiah who was partnered with his long-time quiet common-law wife Jessie Brown (Barbara O""Neil), and Marta""s three sisters (all Aunts):Aunt Jenny (Hope Landin), bossyAunt Sigrid (Edith Evanson), whinyTrina (Ellen Corby), a wallflower, timid spinster/fiancee, who had plans o marry undertaker Thorkelson (Edgar Bergen, without a dummy)There was also impoverished boarder Mr.To protect the earnings of other child actors, the Coogan Law required that 15% of a child""s earnings be set aside in a trust that could not be tapped without a court order until the child came of age.Although it was nominated in four categories for Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actor (William Powell), Best Director (W.It was actually a box-office flop at the time of its release, and only becametheChristmas movie classic in the 1970s due to repeated television showings at Christmas-time when its copyright protection slipped and it fell into the public domain in 1974 and TV stations could air it for free.The married couple lovingly embraced in the doorway of their cabin, o face the wind together.[Note: The original script idea (based upon the novel) called for a tragic and downbeat ending - after suffering rape and committing homicide, the heroine Letty wandered blindly into the middle of the sandstorm and disappeared - to presumably die for her crime.