Marjorie Main
Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
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- The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan.
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Plot. The Kettles' son Elwin enters a scholarship contest by submitting a report on farming techniques to a national magazine. The essay claims that his family's own farm is a model of modern efficiency. The magazine's editor, intrigued, insists on visiting the farm himself.
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Paris was ultimately released as Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation; Ma and Pa Kettle Hit the Road Home became Ma and Pa Kettle at Home. Kilbride retired after the latter film in 1953, primarily from boredom with the character, as well as health concerns.
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home: Directed by Charles Lamont. With Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley. Ma and Pa Kettle get the farm in order to help their son Elwin win a scholarship.
- (701)
- Comedy
- Charles Lamont
- 1954-03-10
With Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall. On the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but he is accused of plagiarizing his winning slogan by a jealous local woman.
- (1.5K)
- Comedy
- Charles Lamont
- 1949-04-01
Mar 7, 2021 · Entertainment. Ma and Pa Kettle, '50s Comedy Stars, Were Based on a Real Life Farming Couple. By Courtney Campbell | March 7, 2021. Ma and Pa Kettle were popular characters in the...
Summaries. On the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but he is accused of plagiarizing his winning slogan by a jealous local woman.
Culture magazines. Ma and Pa Kettle at Home. views 3,000,013 updated. Ma and Pa Kettle at Home ★★½ 1954. Elwin, one of the Kettle's 15 children, is a finalist in an es say contest that could win him a college scholarship.
