MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH.

Mrs. Wiggs (Lord), facing eviction, scrabbles for survival with her number of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years ago, looking for gold in the Klondike. The family owns the shack but it has a mortgage of $25 (in 1901, about $675 in today's money) and the evil moneylender is threatening them. The oldest son, James, has worked hard all his life, but now is seriously ill with tuberculosis. The little girls are all named "out of geography", Europena (Virginia Weidler), Asia (Carmenc

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Cast
W.C. Fields, Pauline Lord, ZaSu Pitts
Complete catalog record
MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH. Presented by Adolph Zukor. 1934. 9 reels, sd. From the play by Alice Hegan Rice and Anne Crawford Flexner. Credits: Producer, Douglas MacLean; director, Norman Taurog; screenplay, William Slavens McNutt, Jane Storm. Paramount Productions, Inc.; 18Oct34; LP5037.

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