TY - SER
KW - labor strikes
KW - trade unions
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - Pittsburgh Pirates
KW - unemployment
KW - steel industry
KW - addiction
KW - coal industry
AU - Kathleen Betsko Yale
AB - Adapted from a 1982 stage play of the same name, in which Iris (Suzanna Hamilton), 18, a war bride from England, emigrates with her 21-year-old American husband (Peter MacNicol) to a coal patch along the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania. The newlyweds live in the same house with his Hungarian immigrant, coal miner, parents, and young Iris struggles against the ire of her Old World, stern-peasant mother-in-law (Colleen Dewhurst).
C1 - 1959
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Washington County, Monongahela River
C4 - Women’s; Labor
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - The film was shot in Tennessee and also stars Jason Robards and Kathy Bates.
N2 - Adapted from a 1982 stage play of the same name, in which Iris (Suzanna Hamilton), 18, a war bride from England, emigrates with her 21-year-old American husband (Peter MacNicol) to a coal patch along the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania. The newlyweds live in the same house with his Hungarian immigrant, coal miner, parents, and young Iris struggles against the ire of her Old World, stern-peasant mother-in-law (Colleen Dewhurst).
PY - 1986
RN - Kathleen Betsko Yale (1939- ) was born in Coventry, England, and emigrated to a coal town in the Monongahela Valley with her Western-Pennsylvania native husband. She is an actor, playwright, and poet.
TI - Johnny Bull
ER -