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Richard Thomas, Judy Norton, Kami Cotler, Andrew Duggan, David W. Harper, Mary Beth McDonough, Patricia Neal, Eric Scott, and Jon Walmsley in The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)

Ellen Corby: Esther Walton

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

Ellen Corby credited as playing...

Esther Walton

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  • Radio Announcer: Lucky Lindy, a former aerial-mailman himself, has been in Europe surveying the possibility of air-mail service between the old and the new world. He suggests that air-mail service between Europe and America is practical, and predicts that in the distant future, freight and even passengers might cross the Atlantic by airplane.
  • Grandma: Cross the ocean? Why, I wouldn't fly from here to Rockfish in one of the things.
  • Mary Ellen: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
  • Grandma: If this Depression gets any worse, you may have to.
  • Grandpa: It'll never come to that. Franklin D. Roosevelt is gonna put this country on its feet again. You watch my words.
  • John-Boy: [Imitating FDR] My friends, and you are my friends...
  • Grandma: Now, you hush with that disrespect! He's your President.

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