![]() And ruling the family through fear is unmarried Uncle Chris (who shocks his sisters by living with a woman not his wife), whose whereabouts nobody knows and who makes periodic visits to bring boxes of oranges and to see how his sisters are doing. Also there are Mama’s three sisters, domineering and judgmental Jenny, complaining Sigrid, and timid unmarried Trina. I Remember Mama tells the story of the extended Norwegian Hanson family of San Francisco: Mama, Papa, oldest daughter Katrin who wants to be a writer, only son Nels who wants to go to high school (created by Marlon Brando in his Broadway debut), and younger daughters Christine and Dagmar (who only has eyes for her cat Elizabeth). Not seen in a major New York revival, the play has been turned into a Hollywood movie, a television series and Richard Rodgers’ last Broadway musical. Set in San Francisco during the years 1910-1912, I Remember Mama represents the second decade of the 20th century and the second offering in the project. Now it the midst of its “20th Century Project,” a ten-year cycle of ten productions, each focusing on a different decade of the 20th century, Transport Group has chosen John Van Druten’s beloved I Remember Mama, the successful Broadway adaptation of Mama’s Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes which ran from 1944 – 1946 and played a total of 713 performances. Transport Group Theatre Company has become famous for their environmental stagings of new and classic American plays and musicals: The Boys in the Band in a loft apartment, Lysistrata Jones in a basketball court, Hello Again in a cabaret setting, etc. His two survivors, his sons, Lawrence and Vincent.Barbara Andres as Mama and Barbara BarrieĪs Katrin in a scene from Transport Group Theatre His last wife, the late Joan Tetzel, had one of the major roles in “I Remember Mama.” His fourth, the former Florence Meyer, was the daughter of the late Eugene Meyer, the financier and publisher of The Washington Post. Homolka, who had lived in New York City for about 15 years, decided to move to Sussex about 12 years ago because he decided he had had enough of city life. On television, he was seen as Nikita Khrushchev in the Playhouse 90 production “The Plot to Kill Stalin,” as well as in Rod Serling's “In the Presence of Mine Enemies,” Arthur Koestler's “Darkness at Noon” and Sydney Lumet's “Rashomon,” having already been part of the stage production of that play. In the years in between, his screen credits also included Hitchcock's “I Married a Murderer,” “The Key” with Sophia Loren, “The Seven Year Itch” with Marilyn Monroe, the 1956 blockbuster “War and Peace,” “Anna Lucasta” with Paulette Goddard, “Seven Sinners” with Marlene Dietrich and “The Dreyfus Case” with Fritz Kortner. ![]() Homolka it was like coming full circle back to the Russian general Ye’ played for UFA in Germany in the late 1920's. Homoika played the Soviet nemesis of Michael Caine, the hapless British spy. In the 1966 film “Funeral in Berlin.” N1r. On Broadway, before his bestknown role in “I Remember Mama,” he was in “Grey Farm” and “The Innocent Voyage.”Īmong his many movies-in which he appeared with Katharine Hepburn, Gary cooper, Walter Huston, Ingrid Bergman, Luise Rainer, Charles Boyer, Margaret Leighton and Irene Dunne-were “Ebb Tide.” “Mission to Moscow,” “The Madwoman of Chaillot,” “Rage in Heaven” and “Ball of Fire.” Homolka appeared were works by Shakespeare, Shaw, O'Neill. Maybe it is the eyes twinkling in the porcine face-sly, intelligent, scrutinizing eyes.”Īmong the plays in which Mr. Maybe it is the good talk which he practices with the ease and fluency of a man who is accustomed to good talk. One reporter wrote: “There is something likeable about Oscar Homolka. Homolka not only got along well with producers and directors but also charmed interviewers. “He once told us that in Vienna, where he was born, he had considered becoming a painter before he became an actor. “He never talked much about the different styles of acting,” said his son yesterday. ![]() Homolka had been in at last 100 movies and as many television shows. He once estimated that by the time he was 30 he had appeared in more than 400 plays. Whether he was the sinister theater owner terrorizing London in the Hitchcock film “The Woman Alone,” or the blustering uncle in the warm play “I Remember Mama,” he apnroached his job as a professional. Homolka did not worry about styles of acting.
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