In the film, I Remember Mama, Oscar Homolka plays the curmudgeonly Uncle Chris. Later in the movie Chris's nieces are called to say their last good byes before he dies. After he dies, his niece Marta, the Mama of the title played by Irene Dunne, wants her daughter Katrin, played by Barbara Bel Geddes, to see the the now deceased Uncle Chris. Marta tells Katrin,
I like you to know what death looks like. Then you are not frightened of it, ever.
