Films set in early 1900s America (1900s into the 1920s)

IMDb:
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

The original play, "Life With Father", is the longest-running Broadway non-musical play ever. It played on Broadway for nearly eight years (3,224 performances), from 1939 to 1947, and held the record for 25 years until "Fiddler on the Roof" surpassed it. In the play, author Howard Lindsay played Father, Dorothy Stickney was Vinnie, and Teresa Wright was Mary. The movie version was released in 1947, the year the Broadway run ended.

Theatrical movie debut of Martin Milner - the only redhead whose hair color did not come out of a bottle.

A dark part of this era was prohibition, and all the problems that caused, like in The Roaring Twenties 1939.



But there was also Some Like It Hot 1959, that took place at the tail end of the 1920's.

"A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying life circumstances in the untamed west of Montana in the 1920's. ...IMDb

spiderwort, well, hell, I picked the wrong poster. I think the remake is set in the present day (which is the '70s). Saw both versions.

I love both of these films, too, especially as they were each adaptations of two of my favorite books. While Betty Smith's novel had some semi-autobiographical elements in regards to her own parents, Kathryn Forbes' work could have been more accurately entitled I Remember Grandmama, since it was based on her grandparents. Her follow-up book, Transfer Point, was based on her divorced, irresponsible parents, and a heartwarming drama was way less likely to be adapted from that tale.

I was sorry to learn just recently from this year's "TCM Remembers" segment that former child actor Ted Donaldson, who played Neeley in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, had passed away earlier this year. I love his last line in the movie, giving himself away as Francie's devoted brother yet still retaining his tough Brooklyn kid persona: "Aww, cut da mush!" R.I.P.