John-Boy teaches Olivia to drive so she can take an art class, and the art teacher takes a personal interest in her.John-Boy teaches Olivia to drive so she can take an art class, and the art teacher takes a personal interest in her.John-Boy teaches Olivia to drive so she can take an art class, and the art teacher takes a personal interest in her.
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- Olivia Walton
- (as Miss Michael Learned)
- Erin Walton
- (as Mary Elizabeth McDonough)
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- (voice)
- (as Earl Hamner)
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- TriviaAt the museum, Olivia reads aloud from the exhibit label next to a painting, "This one's by someone called Winslow Homer, 1872." The painting (obviously a poorly cropped print) is called Breezing Up (A Fair Wind). It depicts a catboat called the Gloucester chopping through that city's harbor under "a fair wind" (Homer's original title). Inside the boat are a man, three boys, and their catch. The painting was begun in 1873 (not 1872, as Olivia says), and was completed in 1876.
Infrared reflectography has revealed the many changes he made to the composition during this time, including the removal of a fourth boy near the mast and a second schooner in the distance.
- GoofsOlivia tells her art teacher that she met John when she was 16. Previously, when Jenny Pendleton asked when they met, John told her they hadn't met, but that they grew up together.
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Erin Walton: Mama, what did you say the name of the painter you were telling us about was?
Olivia Walton: Paul Gauguin.
The Grandfather: He was a Frenchman. He ran away from his wife to paint natives without much on on an island off somewheres. Tahiti.
Esther Walton: Some heathen place. I told you no good could come from this paintin' business.
The Grandfather: You're wrong Esther, he was great. Famous in more ways than one.
Esther Walton: Yeah, well I'd like to hear his wife's side of that story.
I've never cared for the "Olivia" episode concerning her desire to fly in an airplane. I suppose it was mainly because of the (in my opinion) all too numerous shots of her in the back of the "plane." The plane is so clearly a studio mock-up when they show Olivia's blissed-out expression. Both things bother me: the mock-up, and her blissed-out expression. It's kind of embarrassing. I realize that they couldn't show her in a real plane, blissing-out in the wild blue yonder.......but still.
So, when I saw that the next episode I'd be watching was "The Romance," I held my breath. Another Olivia episode: how would it be?
I needn't have worried. I loved this episode. At times, I thought how the art teacher was so very taken with Olivia was, um, a bit much; but then remembered how I have reacted in the company of a woman I was, suddenly and hopelessly, falling in love with.
It's a tender story
- hmoika
- Feb 25, 2019
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