Ma And Pa Kettle.

Duration: 76 min.

Year Published: 1949

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: 15Mar49 L2270, renewed 30Apr76 R632638 Renewal claimant: Universal Pictures Original author: Universal Pictures Company, Inc

Description: A slapstick comedy in which the father of fifteen children moves his household from a dilapidated farm to a bewildering push-button home that he has won in a slogan contest.

Complete Record: MA AND PA KETTLE. Universal Pictures Co., Inc. Released through Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., c1949. 76 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on characters from "The Egg and I" by Betty MacDonald. Summary: A slapstick comedy in which the father of fifteen children moves his household from a dilapidated farm to a bewildering push-button home that he has won in a slogan contest. Credits: Producer, Leonard Goldstein; director, Charles Lamont; screenplay, Herbert Margolis, Louis Morheim, Al Lewis; music, Milton Schwarzwald; film editor, Russell Schoengarth. Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Patricia Alphin. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 15Mar49; LP2270.