Kathleen Freeman was an actress who seemed to have been in practically everything over the years--ranging from playing a semi-regular on "Hogan's Heroes" to a "Naked Gun" film to "The Magnetic Monster" to "The Dick Van Dyke Show". She was one of those faces you instantly recognize but whose name you don't recall and her IMDb credits run to almost 300 entries! Freeman plays Annie Swenson--a Swedish immigrant who comes to work for the narrator's family in the early 20th century. It seems that a lot of single foreign women came to the US that way--and they worked incredibly hard as domestics to support themselves. As such, the film is like a tribute to these women and both a nice history lesson AND a sweet little short film. See the film and you'll know what I mean--it's very well made and easy to like.
Review of Annie Was a Wonder
