Ross played "My Yiddishe Momma," about a child's love for his self-sacrificing mother.

Anita Gillette as her self-sacrificing mother, M'Lynn, gives a cool performance, until the dramatic payoff, a rending last-act aria that she delivers with the resourcefulness of a seasoned dramatic actress.

The kyōiku mama is analogous to American stereotypes such as the stage mother who forces her child to show-business success, or the critical, self-sacrificing mother who coerces her child into medical school or law school.

That is how she redeems herself from original sin, that is how she is valuable to the community - as the self-sacrificing mother.

Mis-marketed as a gangster action movie, reviewers called it an intense family drama about motherhood, as a strong, self-sacrificing mother has no choice but to endure the hardships of having a hoodlum son.

His self-sacrificing mother doesn't listen and his father is an alcoholic and is seldom around.

One June when one of them had graduated and the other still had two years before she took her degree, they came to the spotless little house and their self-sacrificing mother for the summer holiday.

Monica Bedi, saw herself as a Portuguese woman, a self-sacrificing mother of three kids who watches helplessly as her ex-husband dies in a car accident.

Mr. Goldwyn noted that in the well-remembered 1937 version of the film, starring Barbara Stanwyck as the self-sacrificing mother, Stella had been married.

It was an unusual film in that the mother was acting out of selfish reasons, as opposed to the standard tack of self-sacrificing mothers so much in cinema vogue at the time.