The family was held together by a stern, resourceful, untiring, protective and loving matriarch, Marta "Mama" Hanson (Irene Dunne at age 50), and her blustering, hard-working carpenter husband Lars "Papa" Hanson (Philip Dorn).The brute demands immediate service for his dinner, reating her like a lowly servant or slave."She has to wait - " quietly standing by the table as he gorges himself and then picks his teeth, displaying poor table manners.I ain't much of a lover boy.But that don't mean nothin' personal about you.I-I-I never saw no percentage in it.Ain't nothin' wrong with me.I don't like boys.(He bumps his head on the driver's side door.)Bonnie (frustrated and stunned):...Your advertisin' is just dandy.Folks would never guess you don't have a thing to sell.You'd better ake me home now.Now don't you touch me!As she gets out of the passenger side of the car, he follows after her through the front seat and does a pratfall onto he ground, but quickly uprights himself.The film was producer Samuel Goldwyn's most successful and important work - he also was presented with the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award." Looking down upon his sarcophagus was the statue of the Egyptian god Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death.