About
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.
Theatrical
Nov 29, 1931
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Cast
Full credits →M
Mae Marsh
Ma Shelby
J
James Dunn
Johnny Shelby as an Adult
S
Sally Eilers
Isabel Potter as an Adult
J
James Kirkwood
Pa Shelby in Prologue
E
Edward Crandall
Thomas as an Adult
C
Claire Maynard
Phyllis Shelby, Johnny's Wife
O
Olin Howland
Isaac as an Adult
J
Joan Peers
Susan as an Adult
T
Tommy Conlon
Johnny Shelby in Prologue
J
Julius Molnar
Thomas Shelby in Prologue
M
Marilyn Harris
Susan Shelby in Prologue
E
Eula Guy
Minnie, Isaac's Wife
W
William Pawley
Ben Adams, Susan's Husband
G
George H. Reed
Les, Wagon Driver
D
Douglas Walton
Stephen
D
David Hartford
Bill Collector
B
Billy Barty
Shelby Boy (uncredited)
W
Ward Bond
Detective Escort (uncredited)
