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Mother Carey's Chickens is a 1938 American drama film starring Anne Shirley and Ruby Keeler. The film was directed by Rowland V. Lee and based upon a 1917 play by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Rachel Crothers, which in turn was adapted from Wiggins' Mother Carey's Chickens . Originally Katharine Hepburn was assigned to the lead role, but she refused ...
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Mother Carey's Chickens: Directed by Rowland V. Lee. With Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, James Ellison, Fay Bainter. An 1890s widow has two daughters and two sons. The daughters fall in love with the same gentleman.
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- Drama, Romance
- Rowland V. Lee
- 1938-07-29
Aug 13, 2017 · The name “Mother Carey’s Chickens” came to be also applied to the mobs which thronged the streets of Paris during the first great French Revolution; they were so called because their appearance, like that of the “stormy petrel,” was the foreboding of woe, the heralding of a tumult and political stormy weather.
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Mother Carey's Chickens is a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin. Plot summary [ edit ] The book tells the story of a poor-but-happy family of four children who, in spite of being fatherless, make the lives of others better.
May 19, 2013. Mother Carey’s Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin, is a paean to motherhood. Like others in its genre, like Little Women or Little Lord Fauntelroy, it shows a wise little mother bringing up her lively children in relative poverty while inspiring them (and everyone around them) to be good and to help others.
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not available. Production Company. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Distribution Company. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Country. United States. Screenplay Information. Based on the novel Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Boston, 1911) and the play of the same name by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Rachel Crothers (New York, 25 Sep 1917).
John Kinloch California Eagle Aided and abetted by competent actors, Mother Carey's Chickens is a well-done little piece of sentimental drama. Oct 30, 2019 ...
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