![]() ![]() He is her mother’s (Patricia Collinge) younger brother. She had, after all, been named after him. ![]() The girl had always believed there was a special bond between them. “I only send telegrams the normal way,” the clerk (Minerva Urecal) replies. In fact, that very day she had been thinking of a solution-Uncle Charlie, that wonderful, favorite uncle back East, and when she reads the telegram that he’s coming for a visit, she tells the clerk the coincidence must be due to mental telepathy. All day, Charlie had been depressed, telling her father, Joe (Henry Travers), “This family’s gone to pieces. ![]() Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) learns from her little sister, Ann (Edna May Wonacott), who had answered the phone, that the family has a telegram at the postal union. ![]() You, of course, would hear most expediently by e-mail.īut in 1943, in Santa Rosa, California, a wall telephone would be the primary long-distance communication device, with the receiver on a stiff cord and the mouthpiece on the phone itself. And suppose, while you’re thinking about this uncle, you hear from him, that he’s coming for a visit. Whom would you like to invite for a visit? A high school classmate you haven’t seen in twenty-five years? A former suitor? A new acquaintance you met a few weeks ago? Better yet, what about a favorite uncle, the one your mother is always talking about, the one you were named after? And maybe you’re a little bored, in this town of yours where nothing ever happens. I’ll find out.”- Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) to Uncle Charlie I have a feeling that inside you somewhere there’s something nobody knows about, something secret and wonderful. “I know that you don’t tell people a lot of things. ![]()
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