Desc: White Flannels: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Louise Dresser, Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Warner Richmond. A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz (Louise Dresser), stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz (Jason Robards) to local girl Anne (Virginia Brown Faire), because she , as the wife of Jacob Politz (George Nichols), an ill-educated coal miner, believes their son should obtain a college education.