How Do I Love Thee? (1970)
- Starring:
- Jackie Gleason, Maureen O'Hara, (more)
- Director(s):
- Michael Gordon
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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In this syrupy comedy, a father attempts to reconnect with his troubled, estranged son, a philosophy professor. The chance at reconciliation comes when the son learns that his father, whom he hasn't seen in years is fighting a strange nameless movie disease in a French hospital. The young man's wife is not pleased. While aboard the jet, the son reflects upon his upbringing and the fights that would erupt between his mother, a fundamentalist Christian, and his father, an atheist. He remembers how his father turned to a free-spirited artist for comfort. Just before she left him, the artist gave the father a lovely poem. Later after his son became a teacher, the father decides to enter to piece in a poetry contest and wins $10,0000, which he plans to donate to his son's department. Unfortunately someone discovers that the artist's "original" poem is anything but and the father is publicly humiliated while his son is passed for promotion. Seeing how unhappy his son has become, the father decides to go to a church and pray for his son to get promoted. It works, but unfortunately a man had to die for the son to get it leaving the father to be wracked with guilt. Fortunately with the son's arrival comes the father's salvation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jackie Gleason - Stanley Waltz
- Shelley Winters - Lena Mervin
- Rick Lenz - Tom Waltz
- Fritzi Burr - Mrs. Gromulka
- Don Beddoe - Dean Bagley
- Jack Nagle - Hugo Wellington
- Robertson White - Old Geezer
- Clinton Robinson - Tom Waltz, age 11
- Alex Gerry - Walter Wetzel
- Frank Logan - Frank, the Bartender
- Maureen O'Hara - Elsie Waltz
- Rosemary Forsyth - Marion Waltz
- Maurice Marsac - The Bishop
- James McCallion - Pete McGurk
- Templeton Fox - Mrs. Wellington
- Don Sebastian - Art Salerno
- Judy Wallace - Mrs. Bagley
- J. Edward McKinley - Hugo Wellington
- Marcia Knight - Rachel
- Director(s):
- Michael Gordon
- Writer(s):
- Everett Freeman, Karl Tunberg
- Producer(s):
- Robert Enders, Everett Freeman
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Questionable for Children)
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