
He’s a good-natured sort, all smiles and presents and wonderful, worldly stories. She will get all she cares to when Uncle Charlie shows up. It’s all terribly prosaic, all terribly boring. Mom Emma (Patricia Collinge) works way, way, way too hard and has no energy left for enjoyment. Dad Joseph (Henry Travers) is a respectable businessman whose only outlet for enjoyment seems to be reading salacious mystery magazines and talking about how to really kill people with his coworker and pal Herbie Hawkins (Hume Cronyn). Youngest child Roger (Charles Bares) is too naval gazing, too young. Isn’t that swell? The family could use a swift kick in the excitement pants.Ĭharlie’s younger sister Ann Newton (Edna May Wonacott) is too cerebral, too lost in her books to know what fun was if it came up and bit her. Good old Uncle Charlie’s coming to visit the family, and he wants to stay with them awhile. So, she decides to send a telegram to the uncle she was named after, her mother’s brother Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten), when lo and behold, there’s already a telegram waiting from that same party. Not Just the Tale, b… on Just Us Without Justice: John…īored with her nice, domestic homelife with snooze worthy parents, Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) yearns for adventure. Not Just the Tale, b… on Cold Case Warming Up: Stephen… Talking to the Hand:… on MOVIE MONDAYS: MIDSOMMAR Talking to the Hand:… on MOVIE MONDAYS: HEREDITARY Talking to the Hand:… on Hurricane Party With a Twist:…

Lost Dolls and Deadly Presences: The Communion Girl.Knowing Loneliness: Isabel Cañas’ The Hacienda.

