• Ma and Pa Kettle are comic film characters of the successful film series of the same name, produced by Universal Studios, in the late 1940s and 1950s...
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  • Ma and Pa Kettle (also known as The Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle) is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the sequel...
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  • Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki is a 1955 American comedy film directed by Lee Sholem. It is the seventh installment of Universal-International's Ma and Pa...
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  • Ma and Pa Kettle at Home is a 1954 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the sixth, and also most successful, installment of Universal-International's...
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  • Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Edward Sedgwick. It is the third installment of Universal-International's...
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  • Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the second installment of Universal-International's Ma and...
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  • Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton. It is the fourth installment of Universal-International's Ma and...
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    fourth film was The Egg and I (1947), playing Tom Kettle, the eldest son of Ma and Pa Kettle, the characters played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. The...
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  • Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the sixth installment of Universal-International's Ma and...
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    Percy Kilbride (category Ma and Pa Kettle)
    made a career of playing country "hicks," most memorably as Pa Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of feature films. Kilbride was born in San Francisco...
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  • and Pa Kettle, a husband-and-wife pair of characters in Betty MacDonald's novel, The Egg and I, and the associated film franchise. The Maryland and Pennsylvania...
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    Marjorie Main (category Ma and Pa Kettle)
    1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Main started her career in vaudeville and theatre, and appeared in film classics, such...
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    starred in two episodes of It's a Great Life, and reprised her role as "Rosie Kettle" in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki. That same year, she co-starred in...
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    and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as Ma and Pa Kettle. The box office success of The Egg and I...
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    Hicks in the Ma and Pa Kettle films The Egg and I (1947), Ma and Pa Kettle (1949), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952), and Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki...
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  • Kettles in the Ozarks is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the ninth installment of Universal-International's Ma and Pa Kettle...
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  • Minnesota Kettle Valley, British Columbia Kingskettle, Scotland Captain Kettle, fictional character in a series of novels by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne Ma and Pa Kettle...
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  • arrival of electricity and running water. The neighbors and townspeople are also described in the book. The "Ma and Pa Kettle" characters are near neighbors...
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    directing over 200 titles and producing and writing many others. He directed nine Abbott and Costello comedies and many Ma and Pa Kettle films. Lamont was born...
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    the Crab Monsters (1956), and The Space Children (1958). He also appeared in a Ma and Pa Kettle vehicle, Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955), as well...
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    installment of Universal-International's Ma and Pa Kettle series starring Marjorie Main and introducing Parker Fennelly as Pa, replacing Percy Kilbride. It was...
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    parts in several films, including Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954), Artists and Models (1955), The Bad Seed (1956), and The Wrong Man (1956). Morrow later...
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    often in "B" films (playing storekeeper Billy Reed in several of the Ma and Pa Kettle movies), he also performed in "A" films, including portraying a Paramount...
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    in both the 1947 film The Egg and I (with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert) and its first followup Ma and Pa Kettle (1949). He also played various...
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  • Ma and Pa Kettle The Egg and I (1947) Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950) Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) Ma and Pa Kettle...
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  • The Story of Will Rogers in 1952 and Ma and Pa Kettle at Home in 1954. Epper alternated between stunt working and acting roles throughout his career...
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  • (uncredited) Gene Autry and the Mounties (1951) - Boy (uncredited) Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) - Benjamin Kettle (uncredited) David and Bathsheba (1951)...
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  • including Magnificent Obsession (1954), one of the Kettle kids in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1954) and There's Always Tomorrow (1956) for Universal-International...
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    proper banker's wife who is repulsed by the bucolic title characters in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955). She was also seen in She's Back on Broadway, So...
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    Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953) (uncredited) Powder River (1953) as Joe (uncredited) Crime Wave (1953) as Sweeney (uncredited) Ma and Pa Kettle at...
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