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Kimberly "Kim" Kettle (née Parker) is the wife of Tom Kettle and is portrayed by Meg Randall in three films. She was the reporter for a popular Seattle magazine and came to Cape Flattery to write a series of articles on the Kettles and their new model home. Kim is very fond of the Kettles.
Mar 7, 2021 · The story of Ma & Pa Kettle also made its way to the small screen. A 15-minute episode TV show ran on CBS from 1951-1952 starring Doris Rich and Frank Twedell as the quirky couple.
Ma and Pa Kettle: Directed by Charles Lamont. With Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall. On the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but he is accused of plagiarizing his winning slogan by a jealous local woman.
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Franklin Kettle (born 1890 or 1891), commonly known as "Pa" and also known as "P.A. Kettle", is the patriarch and head of the Kettle family and the husband of Ma Kettle.
Pa was born in 1890 or 1891, in the Ozark village of Mournful Hollow, Arkansas, to Grandma and Grandpa Kettle. According to his younger brother, Pa resembles his deceased father.
Pa almost went to Paris, France when he enlisted in the Armed Forces during the first World War. However, he never got the chance to visit Paris since they told him that he wouldn't go "until they scraped the bottom of the barrel."
He has two known siblings: an unnamed sister from Portland, and a younger brother named "Sedge" who lives in the Ozarks. Other relatives include his cousin Rodney Kettle, a Hawaii-based entrepreneur, and a nephew in the Armed Forces who was present during the "atomic bomb test in the Pacific."
Pa married Phoebe in 1925. They had the following children:
1.Thomas "Tom" Kettle
2.Rose "Rosie" Kettle
3.Elwin Kettle
4.Daniel "Danny" Kettle
Percy Kilbride portrayed Pa in The Egg and I (1947), Ma and Pa Kettle (1949), Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950), Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952), Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953), Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954), and Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955). Parker Fennelly replaced Kilbride as Pa in The ...
Marjorie Main. Mary Tomlinson (February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975), professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an American character actress and singer of the Classical Hollywood period, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s and 1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies. [1]
YearTitleRoleNotes1929Harry Fox and His Six American BeautiesStatler Hotel BeautyShort, Uncredited1931Woman at weddingUncredited1932Frau SchmidtUncredited1932Gossip in WindowUncreditedThe Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle.
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Ma and Pa Kettle. The hillbilly couple were supporting characters in “The Egg and I” but their popularity found them spun off into their own cornpone series. This first feature finds the couple and their 15 children about to be evicted only to have Pa win a tobacco slogan contest. The prize is a brand-new fully automated house whose ...
