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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) more movies like this

directed by Edward Sedgwick
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Ray Collins

This third entry in Universal's money-spinning "Ma and Pa Kettle" series once more stars Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as the title characters. This time, the Kettles extend their hospitality to their stuffy Boston in-laws (Ray Collins and Barbara Brown). Trouble brews when the Bostonites offer to raise the Kettles' grandson in a more "suitable ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Patricia Alphin

The title couple and their enormous brood of bumpkins made their movie debut in the film version of Betty McDonald's humorous book The Egg and I (1947) where they appeared as supporting characters. Audiences found them funny and so the characters got their own long-running series of B movies. Ma and Pa Kettle is the first in that series and ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Brett Halsey

This sixth in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" series produced by Universal stars (as usual) Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa. After a whirlwind international tour, the contest-winning rustics and their fifteen children return to their old farm. The eldest Kettle son (Brett Halsey) has a chance of winning a scholarship prize to a prestigious ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Gregg Martell

The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. This time, the Kettles win a letter-writing contest, which offers as first prize an all-expense-paid trip to New York City. Once in Manhattan, the huge Kettle brood raises all sorts of Holy Ned, culminating in an ...

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The Egg and I

The Egg and I (1947) more movies like this

directed by Chester Erskine
featuring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Louise Allbritton

Based on the humorous autobiographical book by Betty McDonald, The Egg & I casts Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray as Manhattan-dwelling newlyweds. When MacMurray enthusiastically purchases an upstate farm in the hopes of cleaning up in the egg business, Colbert cautiously goes along. The film's humor is derived from the efforts of these two ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, James Best, Lori Nelson, Esther Dale

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away nothing to reveal that Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride once more assume the title roles. The plot is motivated by Ma's desire to send daughter Rosie (Lori Nelson) to college. To that end, she intends to win a big cash prize at ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Bodil Miller, Sig Rumann

This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the Universal back lot). All the standard "innocents abroad" gags are in attendance, including Pa Kettle's (Percy Kilbride) efforts to extinguish a flaming serving of crepes suzettes, and Ma's (Marjorie Main) entanglement with a ...

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George Washington Slept Here

George Washington Slept Here (1942) more movies like this

directed by William Keighley
featuring Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, Hattie McDaniel

The Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman Broadway hit George Washington Slept Here has herein been tailored to the unique talents of Jack Benny. In the original play, city dweller Bill Fuller, fired up with the spirit of "back to the soil," purchases a ramshackle Colonial-era farmhouse in upstate New York, dragging his reluctant wife, Connie, along for the ...

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The Southerner

The Southerner (1945) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, Bunny Sunshine, Percy Kilbride, J. Carrol Naish, Jay Gilpin

The Southerner was Jean Renoir's favorite of his American films. Shot on location, the film stars Zachary Scott as a sharecropper who yearns for a place of his own. On a tiny, scraggly patch of land, Scott tries to make a go of things, along with his wife Betty Field, his grandmother Beulah Bondi, and his children Jean Vanderwilt (aka Bunny ...

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The Sun Comes Up

The Sun Comes Up (1949) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Claude Jarman, Jr., Percy Kilbride

In this moving drama an embittered widow, a former concert singer, can't help but blame Lassie for her son's death. Needing help with her chores, she hires an orphan from the local home. At first she remains aloof towards the charming lad who quickly bonds with the collie dog, but as time passes she can't help but develop feelings for the boy. ...

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Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) more movies like this

directed by Harry Joe Brown
featuring Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Ernest Cossart, Shelley Winters, Johnnie Davis, Percy Kilbride

The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of ...

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