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Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)
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April 1955 (USA) moreTagline:
Ma and Pa go native... and Waikiki goes wacky!Plot:
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Complete credited cast)| Marjorie Main | ... | Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle | |
| Percy Kilbride | ... | Pa Kettle | |
| Lori Nelson | ... | Rosie Kettle | |
| Byron Palmer | ... | Bob Baxter | |
| Russell Johnson | ... | Eddie Nelson | |
| Hilo Hattie | ... | Mama Lotus | |
| Loring Smith | ... | Rodney Kettle | |
| Lowell Gilmore | ... | Robert Coates | |
| Mabel Albertson | ... | Mrs. Teresa Andrews | |
| Fay Roope | ... | Fulton Andrews | |
| Oliver Blake | ... | Geoduck | |
| Teddy Hart | ... | Crowbar | |
| Esther Dale | ... | Birdie Hicks | |
| Claudette Thornton | ... | Rodney Kettle's Secretary |
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Filming Locations:
O'ahu, Hawaii, USAFun Stuff
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This is the last film in the series to feature Percy Kilbride who had retired from acting after receiving injuries from being hit by an automobile while walking near his home. moreQuotes:
Bob Baxter: Say, I seem to be lost. Can you tell me where P.A. Kettle lives?Birdie Hicks: P.A. Kettle?
Miss Pennyfeather: The only Kettles we know live down this street.
Bob Baxter: Is he the industrialist?
Birdie Hicks: If you call having children an industry.
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I wonder why there is such a persistent tradition in movies to depict low class folks comically.
Its usually done with apparent sympathy to the honest or simple values of our rubes, and the only people treated harshly are the rich (and bankers). "Beverly Hillbillies" was the extreme, I guess.
But the root of the thing is a sort of white minstrel mentality. While we chuckle over the dumbness (and in this case laziness) of these trailer park dummies (who seem to do nothing but rut and make more), isn't the point that we are superior?
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.