

The son in a close-knit family of Wisconsin dairy farmers decides to get married and move out of the house, just as his mother discovers she has incurable leukemia and only a short time to live.

Patricia Neal
Peg Gerlach

Ed Flanders
Carl Gerlach

Marc Singer
Andy Gerlach

Meg Foster
Judy Pines

Charles Haid
Willie McCreevy

Doreen Lang
Millie Havemeyer

Med Flory
John Tillman
Jim Kasten
M.C.
Oliver Jacques
Clifford Canby
A.R. Bowles
Harold Redman