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Post by dcamp on Apr 6, 2014 18:43:37 GMT -5
I just watched the episode where Martha Corinne and her family were forced to move off the mountain because a highway was coming through. After putting up a fight, Martha finally surrendered and agreed to move into a different home which had running water and electricity. My question is: I can recall a later episode where Martha Corinne was having heart attacks and John and Olivia had her come live with them. She desperately wanted to return to live and eventually die in her house on the mountain. John Boy took her there and she had another heart attack. He convinced her to come back to the Walton house with him.
According to the episode I just watched, the mountain home was no longer there and she was living elsewhere. I'm confused about the discrepancy.
Thank you for any input.
Donna
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Apr 6, 2014 19:20:10 GMT -5
I just watched the episode where Martha Corinne and her family were forced to move off the mountain because a highway was coming through. After putting up a fight, Martha finally surrendered and agreed to move into a different home which had running water and electricity. My question is: I can recall a later episode where Martha Corinne was having heart attacks and John and Olivia had her come live with them. She desperately wanted to return to live and eventually die in her house on the mountain. John Boy took her there and she had another heart attack. He convinced her to come back to the Walton house with him. According to the episode I just watched, the mountain home was no longer there and she was living elsewhere. I'm confused about the discrepancy. Thank you for any input. Donna
You just finished watching the double episode "The Conflict," from Season 3 Ep. 1. The other one you are speaking of is "The Pony Cart," Season 5 Ep. 10. Wade Walton and his wife Vera also appears again in "The Estrangement," Season 4 Ep. 12. Boone Walton appears again in "The Moonshiner," Season 7 Ep. 3.
In the pony cart, Martha Corrine comes for a visit (not to live with them). She gives several of her prized possessions away and seems cantankerous to everyone and has her way of doing things that get on Grandma and Olivia's nerves. When John Boy is taking her back home (the new one with electricity and running water) she has him take her back by the cemetery where her husband and child are buried at (where the old home place once stood). While cleaning their graves, she has one of her 'heart attacks.' John Boy finds out that she has been having them for a while now and that was the reason for her visit and giving things away...because she knew she was dying.
John Boy insists on bringing her back home with him but she makes him promise that he will not tell any of his family. John Boy ends up letting his family know which upsets her. Ben has purchased an old pony cart that he wants to fix up and sell. Martha Corrine tells him that it is a 'shay.' She wants to paint it like the ones from her childhood but Ben is not so sure. She makes a deal with him, let me paint it and if you don't like it you can paint over it. She paints it and it turns out beautifully. They take two pictures of everyone with the finished pony cart. Ben then takes Martha Corrine for the first ride in it. She sees a patch of daisies and asks Ben to stop and let her out. She tells him to continue on down the road and to swing back by to pick her up. While in the daisies, she has a fatal heart attack. After her death, she is buried in the family cemetery next to her husband Henry. He was Zebulon (Grandpa Walton's) brother. Hope this helps!
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Post by dcamp on Apr 6, 2014 19:54:49 GMT -5
Thank you. I guess I had it a little mixed up!
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Post by ruthann on Apr 8, 2014 21:25:56 GMT -5
I always enjoy spotting 'faces' in various movies and shows. Martha Corrine, played by Beulah Bondi, always stumped me. I knew I have seen her in another movie/show. Finally, I made the connection. She is George Bailey's (Jimmy Stewart) mother, in "It's a Wonderful Life"! I realize today there are so many ways of looking up actors, actresses and roles on the computer. But I resist the temptation and just keep mulling it over until it hits me. Ellen Corby, Grandma Walton, was in so many of the older movies. Lots of bit parts and more. She, too, appears in IAWL! She requests a very small sum of money from George Bailey on the day of the run at the Svgs and Loan.
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Post by twinkle on Apr 15, 2014 8:10:01 GMT -5
I always enjoy spotting 'faces' in various movies and shows. Martha Corrine, played by Beulah Bondi, always stumped me. I knew I have seen her in another movie/show. Finally, I made the connection. She is George Bailey's (Jimmy Stewart) mother, in "It's a Wonderful Life"! I realize today there are so many ways of looking up actors, actresses and roles on the computer. But I resist the temptation and just keep mulling it over until it hits me. Ellen Corby, Grandma Walton, was in so many of the older movies. Lots of bit parts and more. She, too, appears in IAWL! She requests a very small sum of money from George Bailey on the day of the run at the Svgs and Loan. Beulah Bondi is also the social worker who arranges the adoption for Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in Penny Serenade
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Post by Kathy Lee on Apr 16, 2014 5:33:05 GMT -5
I love the movie Penny Serenade! Great movie about adoption. Makes you want to go and kiss your children. I didn't know that was B B. Will have to watch that movie again. It is funny how they treated the subject of her not being able to have children. They imply it visually.
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Apr 19, 2014 18:13:40 GMT -5
She played Stewart's mother 2 or 3 times.
2 for sure.. I have "It's a Wonderful life" and "Mr. Smith goes to Washington".
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