Overview

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.

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Cast

Mae Marsh

Ma Shelby

James Dunn

Johnny Shelby as an Adult

Sally Eilers

Isabel Potter as an Adult

James Kirkwood

Pa Shelby in Prologue

Claire Maynard

Phyllis Shelby, Johnny's Wife

Olin Howland

Isaac as an Adult

Joan Peers

Susan as an Adult

Tommy Conlon

Johnny Shelby in Prologue

Marilyn Harris

Susan Shelby in Prologue

Eula Guy

Minnie, Isaac's Wife

William Pawley

Ben Adams, Susan's Husband

George H. Reed

Les, Wagon Driver