Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

Name: Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1951-06-20
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long

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1h 20m

7.0/10

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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)

Comedy

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygienic... Read allThe Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygienically".The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygienically".

7.0/10

731

Director
- Edward Sedgwick
Writers
- Jack Henley(story and screenplay)
- Betty MacDonald(characters)
Stars

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Awards
- 2 nominations

J.P. Sloane and Percy Kilbride in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)

J.P. Sloane, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, and Marjorie Main in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)

Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)

On the set of Ma & Pa Kettle Back on the Farm, with director Ed Sedgwick and his young protégé, J.P. Sloane who plays the part of Billy Kettle, clowning around with Televisions Hollywood Hostess Anita Coleman. Anita and the boys are seen preparing for an upcoming appearance on Hollywoods Memory Lane television show, where Sloane also appears regularly, promoting this soon to be released film.

(Far Left) Richard Long, "Tom Kettle." Center seated, Percy Kilbride "Pa Kettle" & J.P. Sloane "Billy Kettle." Standing behind Pa, Marjorie Main, "Ma Kettle"

Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, and Marjorie Main in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)

Tom Kettle and his wife, Kim, and their baby, are happily living with his parents in their new home, until Kim's uppity parents from Boston come for a visit. They proceed to take over the rearing of the baby and the whole Kettle household , and Ma and Pa Kettle decide to move back to their ramshackle farm house. There, they discover uranium on their property, or think they did. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

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Taglines
- Back where the FUN began!
Genre
- Comedy
Certificate
- Approved
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
Fourth of eight films in which Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride portrayed Ma and Pa Kettle.

Goofs
When Jonathan Parker comes into the kitchen to get breakfast for his "ailing" wife, he goes over to the stove where Ma is cooking grits. A shadow of the boom microphone can be seen moving on a pillar behind him.

Quotes
Elizabeth Parker: You know, Ma, I bet you once had an hourglass figure.
Ma Kettle: Yeah, but the sand sure shifted.

Connections
Edited into Lego Ma and Pa Kettle: Back on the Farm (2010)

Soundtracks
Tiger Rag
(uncredited)
Written by Nick LaRocca, Edwin B. Edwards, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields

Top review

7/10

another installment of Ma & Pa Kettle

One of the director's final films - Edward Sedgwick died two years after making this third chapter of Ma & Pa Kettle. In this one, after Kim, the daughter-in-law has a new baby, her snobby parents come to visit the Kettles in the fancy house that they had won in the first film. This also marks the first and last time I ever saw Marjorie Mains with her long hair down. Pa does a fun mathematics gag on the chalkboard, and on it goes. Ray Collins is Jonathan Parker - viewers will recognize Collins from the Perry Mason show, and the bazillion films he did in the 1940s. Also keep an eye out for a brief appearance by Harry Von Zell; in addition to all the voice-over work, he did numerous episodes on the "Burns and Allen" show. Swindlers try to buy the Kettles' old farmland when it turns out there's something valuable in it... (sound familiar...?) They do a good job of continuing the Kettle story, in spite of the fact that it has different writers. Fun way to spend about an hour and a half. A little more sadness and fighting in this one than the others, but still entertaining.

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