On the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but he is accused of plagiarizing his winning slogan by a jealous local woman.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Marjorie Main | ... | Ma Kettle | |
| Percy Kilbride | ... | Pa Kettle | |
| Richard Long | ... | Tom Kettle | |
| Meg Randall | ... | Kim Parker | |
| Patricia Alphin | ... | Secretary | |
| Esther Dale | ... | Mrs. Birdie Hicks | |
| Barry Kelley | ... | Mr. Victor Tomkins | |
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Harry Antrim | ... | Mayor Dwiggins |
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Isabel O'Madigan | ... | Mrs. Hicks' Mother |
| Ida Moore | ... | Emily | |
| Emory Parnell | ... | Bill Reed | |
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Boyd Davis | ... | Mr. Simpson |
| O.Z. Whitehead | ... | Mr. Billings | |
| Ray Bennett | ... | Sam Rogers | |
| Alvin Hammer | ... | Alvin | |
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The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
1 April 1949 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle See more »Filming Locations:
Courthouse Square, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USACompany Credits
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1.37 : 1
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Ma Kettle: [grabs Birdie] Listen here Birdie, it may be a good day for you, but it ain't for Pa. All the poor man wanted was a new tobacco pouch and instead he won a house he didn't want and he got a bad sunburn.
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Second of eight films in which Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride portrayed Ma and Pa Kettle. See more »Goofs
When the Mayor and Sam try to visit the Kettle home, Ma shoots the hat off of the mayor with a shotgun from 20 yards away. The spray of buckshot from that distance would cover 20 square feet, and severely injure both men. See more »Quotes
Mrs. Birdie Hicks: [after getting the Kettles evicted] Good day.Ma Kettle: [grabs Birdie] Listen here Birdie, it may be a good day for you, but it ain't for Pa. All the poor man wanted was a new tobacco pouch and instead he won a house he didn't want and he got a bad sunburn.
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Ma and Pa Kettle live in a falling down shack with 14 of their 15 kids. Tom, the eldest, is away at college. Ma can't remember all of her kids names, and Pa is extremely lazy. Pa enters a contest to supply a slogan for a tobacco company so he can get a new tobacco pouch. They end up winning the grand prize, a new, modern house with many electronic features. My expectations of this film was that it would have more slapstick elements in it, like Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, but it doesn't. It has gentle humor, most of it stemming from Pa Kettle's "fish out of water" situations, ie a poor country man living in a house with modern conveniences. This film was OK, but I really didn't laugh out loud too many times. More of a gentle type of humor, it just brought smiles to my face.