All the Way Home

All the Way Home (1960), a play by Tad Mosel. [ Belasco Theatre, 334 perf.; Pulitzer Prize; NYDCC Award.] Although Jay Follet (Arthur Hill) is a country boy and relatively indifferent to religion, he has made a happy marriage with his devoutly Catholic, city‐bred wife, Mary (Colleen Dewhurst). Their life with their young son Rufus (John Megna) is all the richer for their many visits to their extended family. However, Jay is disturbed by Mary's refusal to explain to Rufus that she is pregnant. So when Jay goes off to visit his dying father and is killed in an auto accident, Mary is left to question her religious beliefs and to prepare Rufus for the new baby. Based on James Agee's novel A Death in the Family, the drama received major awards in a weak season for American works. “Though hardly a play,” Louis Kronenberger noted, “it often proved vividly playable.” [George Ault Jr.] Tad MOSEL (b. 1922), a native of Steubenville, Ohio, was educated at Amhurst College, Yale, and Columbia. He wrote many television dramas but his only other theatre contribution of note was an excellent biography of Katherine Cornell.

All the Way Home may refer to:

• All the Way Home (play), a 1960 play by Tad Mosel adapted from the James Agee novel A Death in the Family
• All the Way Home (film), a 1963 film adapted from Mosel's play and Agee's novel
• All the Way Home (1981 film), a TV adaptation of the play and novel, starring Sally Field and Ellen Corby
• All the Way Home (novel), a 2001 novel by Patricia Reilly Giff

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