The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971 TV Movie)

Ellen Corby: Esther Walton

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Quotes 

• Mary Ellen : I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

  Grandma : If this Depression gets any worse, you may have to.

• 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.

• 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.