Keeper of the Flame
1942
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Main played opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in the film. The two Kettle characters proved to be so popular among film audiences that Universal decided to do a series.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11—Percy Kilbride, the Pa Kettle oi the movies, died early today, s little” over two months after he was “injured in a Hollywood traffic accident. He was 76 years old. Mr....
The success of the novel spawned the 1947 film The Egg and I starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, also co-starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as Ma and Pa Kettle. Main was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role.
Percy Kilbride. Richard Long. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. Added by 1.7K users. 24 User reviews. 5 Critic reviews. Photos 6. Top cast. Edit. Marjorie Main. Ma Kettle.
Percy Kilbride is known as an Actor. Some of his work includes Fallen Angel, The Southerner, Ma and Pa Kettle, The Egg and I, State Fair, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town, Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm, and Riff-Raff.
Familiar to million as the twangy, bucolic Pa Kettle, Percy Kilbride first stepped on the stage in the role of an 18th-century French fop in a San Francisco production of Tale of Two Cities. Interrupting his career to serve in World War I, Kilbride spent the postwar years in regional stock companies.
Percy William Kilbride. Birth Place. San Francisco, California, USA. Born. July 16, 1888. Died. December 11, 1964. Cause of Death. Pneumonia After Brain Surgery For Injuries Sustained After Being Struck By A Car.
