How Do I Love Thee (1970)
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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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michael Gordon
- Written By
- Everett Freeman, Karl Tunberg
- Genres
- Comedy
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Cast
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Jackie Gleason
as Stanley Waltz
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Maureen O'Hara
as Elsie Waltz
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Shelley Winters
as Lena Mervin
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Rosemary Forsyth
as Marion Waltz
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Rick Lenz
as Tom Waltz
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Maurice Marsac
as The Bishop
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Fritzi Burr
as Mrs. Gromulka
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James McCallion
as Pete McGurk
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Don Beddoe
as Dean Bagley
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Templeton Fox
as Mrs. Wellington
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Alex Gerry
as Walter Wetzel
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Marcia Knight
as Rachel
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Frank Logan
as Frank the Bartender
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J. Edward McKinley
as Hugo Wellington
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Jack Nagle
as Hugo Wellington
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Clinton Robinson
as Tom Waltz age 11
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Don Sebastian
as Art Salerno
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Judy Wallace
as Mrs. Bagley
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Robertson White
as Old Geezer
