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1.The Ma & Pa Kettle Collection: The Egg and I starring: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton, Percy Kilbride directed by: Chester Erskine February 13, 1995
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This warm and funny account of a newly married couple trying to make a go of it on a backwoods chicken farm, based on Betty MacDonald's popular best seller, was a big hit with audiences during the 1940's and has lost none of its appeal today. This is a great film the entire family can watch together. Chester Erskine produced, directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Fred F. Finklehoffe in this hilarious and heartwarming film all will enjoy. Claudettle Colbert is wonderful as the shocked but game Betty when on her honeymoon her husband Bob (Fred MacMurray) informs her he has quit his brokerage house job and bought a chicken farm in the country. She figures things could be worse, and they are, as their farm is a ramshackle old place that fights back! After all, there's not another ... Read More

2.Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki starring: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer, Russell Johnson directed by: Lee Sholem April 25, 1995
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Forgot how funny these movies were. The innocence of the time. Why can't we make movies today like this.

3.The Further Adventures of "Ma & Pa Kettle" starring: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Patricia Alphin directed by: Charles Lamont February 13, 1995
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This is he first starring role for Ma & Pa Kettle, but not the first film they appeared in. The very first film Majorie Main and Percy Kilbride as "Ma & Pa Kettle", along with Richard Long was in the film "The Egg And I" (1947). They were only minor characters in the film, but made such an impact and was considered so down-home funny that it was decided they should be given a movie of their own. Thus "Ma & Pa Kettle" (1949) was made. In fact, they made eight more films to follow. The films are quite wholesome and Ma & Pa Kettle living on the farm, I'm sure you will enjoy the country-life humor. Ma & Pa Kettle didn't always stay on the farm. They did go to the fair and traveled to the city and even Hawaii. In this film, they finally get to move into a new model home. Wait until ... Read More

4.State Fair (1945) starring: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger directed by: Walter Lang January 01, 1998
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This a classic family movie. It was produced when wholsom entertainment was the norm.

5.Ma & Pa Kettle at the Fair starring: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, James Best, Lori Nelson, Esther Dale directed by: Charles Barton February 13, 1995
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I grew up watching the Ma and Pa Kettle series on PBS on Sunday mornings. I was so excited to discover that they had been released on video, I was able to 'rediscover' these screen gems. Ma and Pa make me laugh out loud! I would recommend this to anyone who likes to revisit fun and innocent times.

6.Welcome Stranger starring: Ariane Allen, Don Beddoe, Lillian Bronson, Joan Caulfield, Bing Crosby June 20, 1995
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My favorite Bing Crosby movie.It has romance,comedy & of course music. Would love to see it on DVD as VHS is all that is avaliable for purchase. A truly great family movie with a great cast. Would buy as soon as it comes out. Thanks: David S.

7.Ma & Pa Kettle Go to Town starring: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Gregg Martell directed by: Charles Lamont February 13, 1995
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Although THE EGG AND I, which came before, introduced Ma and Pa Kettle (Marjorie Main/Percy Kilbride) to film audiences, this is the second of their series as principals. While residing in the modern home that the pair had won in their first solo adventure, Pa wins a trip for both to New York City, with their apparent only problem the locating of a babysitter for the 15 Kettle children, solved when Shotgun Mike Munger (Charles McGraw), a bank robber in search of a hideout is willing to take on this formidable assignment. The Kettles agree to deliver an empty bag belonging to Munger to his "brother" Louie (Gregg Martell) in Gotham, not realizing it contains $100,000 in stolen cash and the fun begins with gangsters tailing Pa and the police keeping a watch on the thugs, all while Shotgun Mike discovers the tribulations ... Read More

8.George Washington Slept Here starring: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, Hattie McDaniel directed by: William Keighley December 11, 1992
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I've always enjoyed stories about a couple moving to the country to either fix up an old house or deal with a house that turns out to be haunted, etc. Along these lines I think of films like 'Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House' and/or the suspenseful 'The Uninvited'. But, of course, with Jack Benny as the star you know you're in for comedy when he and his attractive wife (Ann Sheridan) decide to shed city dweller status and move to a more rural setting. Sheridan has her heart set on a ramshackle old house in Connecticut that seems to be falling apart--but with the help of movie magic she fixes it up and--presto--looks like something out of a House Beautiful catalog. The comedy is outdated and some of it falls short of the mark, but not when neighbor Percy Kilbride is around. Reportedly, Jack and Ann found ... Read More

9.Ma & Pa Kettle at Home starring: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Brett Halsey directed by: Charles Lamont February 14, 1995
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The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a scholarship. However, who ever has the nicest looking farm and raises their kids in a good enviroment has a chance of winning. So the Kettles move back to the old farm (where they lived in their first film appearance THE EGG AND I [1947]) to fix it up. Funniest bit: Ma tries on a corset. Another funny bit: The town Indians had to read a book on "Indian Costumes" on how to dress (or be undressed) like their forefathers and learn to put on war mark make-up. Mary Wickes has a role as "Miss Wetter". The Kettles also have Christmas on the farm. The next film in the series is MA AND PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI (1955).

10.Keeper of the Flame starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker directed by: George Cukor September 01, 1998
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This film started well - I'm a big Spencer Tracy fan, and he's as good as ever in this noirish mystery. But it quickly gets convoluted and dull. The whole thing is like a Victorian gaslight melodrama, and about that interesting, with everything revealed in the last reel. Hepburn is stagey and doesn't get to use her fine comedy talents in a one dimensional role. The ending, the big secret, is signposted throughout the movie, but it will still come as a surprise, since you will have convinced yourself that it is too preposterous to be what you thought it was. Like I say, Tracey is good, but not even he can save this turkey.

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