Based on a true story, this book tells the tale of a 12-year-old boy who, after the death of his parents, gives his five younger brothers and sisters away to carefully chosen families on Christmas Day.
Release Date: November 13, 1957
Release Time: 103 minutes
Cast:
Glynis Johns as Mamie
Cameron Mitchell as Robert
Rex Thompson as Robbie
Patty McCormack as Annabelle
Ernest Truex as Doctor Delbert
Hope Emerson as Mrs. Pugmire
Alan Hale, Jr. as Tom Cullen
Sylvia Field as Lelia Delbert
Royal Dano as Howard Tyler
Reta Shaw as Mrs. Runyon
Stephen Wootton as Jimmy
Butch Bernard as Kirk
Yolanda White as Elizabeth
Rita Johnson as Katie Tyler
Ellen Corby as Mrs. Raiden
Rosalyn Boulter as Mrs. Stephens
Francis De Sales as Mr. Stephens
Jon Provost as Robbie Eunson - age 6
From the NY Times obituary March 9, 2002:
Dale Eunson, a prolific writer whose career spanned seven decades of scripts for movies, television and the theater, died on Feb. 20 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in the San Fernando Valley. He was 97.
Mr. Eunson's gift for writing emerged in his childhood, when he transcribed the true story of his father, who, as a newly orphaned son of Scottish immigrants, traveled through the Wisconsin snow on Christmas Eve in 1868 to find homes for his five younger siblings. The story, ''The Day They Gave Babies Away,'' was published in a magazine and was later turned into a film and a children's novel.
Mr. Eunson moved to Los Angeles with his family in the early 1920's and attended the University of Southern California for a year. He then worked as a movie studio publicist before becoming a secretary to the novelist Rupert Hughes.
Hughes later referred him to Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine; he was hired and quickly ascended the company ranks, becoming associate editor in 1933.
Mr. Eunson married another writer, Katherine Albert, in 1931 and collaborated with her on Broadway plays in the 1940's; she died in 1970. They also wrote the 1950's movie scripts ''On the Loose,'' starring their daughter, Joan Evans; and ''The Star,'' featuring Bette Davis.
Among the couple's television scripts were several episodes of ''Leave It to Beaver'' and ''Little House on the Prairie.''
Unfortunately many online booksellers such as Amazon were from 3rd party sellers
asking unreasonably high prices that I could not in good faith include the links here.
I suggest your best bet would be local used bookstores and/or libraries
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