Ma and Pa Kettle

Growing up, my brothers and I couldn’t figure out why our mom was so fond of the Ma & Pa Kettle “b” comedies. Even as kids, we knew most of those films were formulaic. They work primarily because of Majorie Main’s and Percy Kilbride’s salt-of-the-earth personae and…

Quiller

Release date: April 1, 1949 Ma and Pa and their 15 or 16 kids get into hijinks when they win a new “completely automatic house."  There were nine films in this series, four of which were released on April 1st, and to quote Pa Kettle, "Happy April Fools' Day."

Scott Huston

Out of The Egg and I (1947) comes a Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) spin-off with a total of 9 films with the combo of Marjorie Main & Percy Kilbride playing the parts in most of them. And it's a happy hillbilly type sitcom-ish formula with the Kettles moving up in society winning…

PUNQ

Even if it’s not a ground breaking story, Ma and Pa Kettle has Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, which makes it an entertaining watch. Side note: if you like Kilbride in this, I highly recommend his first breakout performance in a movie role as Mr Kimber the handyman in…

hellohildy

Charles Lamont’s comedy. On the verge of eviction, the hillbilly family wins a slogan contest and moves into an automated home. Starring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride and Richard Long. Ma and Pa Kettle is most notable for being the first in the successful Ma and Pa…

Luke Thorne

Despite this film series having nearly a dozen entries, I had somehow never seen a one of them, aside from the original Fred MacMurray/Claudette Colbert film "The Egg and I," where the titular duo were supporting players who stole the film out from everyone else. It's…

Johnny Pomatto

This is what the Duggar’s would be if they didn’t have money from reality tv.

Shea

Ma and Pa Kettle is the "sequel" to The Egg and I (1947). Ma and Pa Kettle were side characters in The Egg and I, and they must have proven to be very popular because they got their own movie! I would have loved Ma and Pa Kettle much more when I was eight or nine years…

8BeanSoup

It's a fine enough movie featuring the only actually interesting characters from The Egg and I. Ma and Pa Kettle are an entertaining pair though I do think they could have cut down on the amount of children they have by a few and it would still work.

Jay