Mother Machree

Mother Machree.

Mother Machree is a 1928 film based on The Story of Mother Machree by Rida Johnson Young.

Cast

Singing cast

• Neil Hamilton - Brian McHugh

Non-singing cast

• Belle Bennett - Mother Machree (Ellen McHugh)
• Victor McLaglen - Terence O'Dowd, The Giant of Kilkenny
• Constance Howard - Edith Cutting
• Ted McNamara - The Harper of Wexford

Plot

Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.

Musical numbers

• "Mother Machree" - Brian