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.And she""s a swell dancer too.And you picked her once, but she got eliminated the third time through." After a lot of laughter when she is summoned: "Hey you with the legs, come out of there!", Sawyer (still in dreamland) is dragged over in front of the annoyed director and told: "All right, she""ll do.Europe began to see great changes.France, ravaged by a hundred years of war, at last found peace.The people under Louis XI felt free to hope again ~ to dream of progress.But superstition and prejudice often stood in the way, seeking o crush the adventurous spirit of man." It was only Fosse""s second film, but won numerous accolades (and was a financial and artistic hit), and has been viewed in retrospect as the only truly great musical of the 1970s.The weathered, tough-talking, aging, white-haired, crusty old Mickey (Burgess Meredith) was disgusted with Rocky""s poor training habits and lack of ambition to be a great fighter.