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Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Marjorie Main, and Meg Randall in Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)

Marjorie Main: Ma Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle

Marjorie Main credited as playing...

Ma Kettle

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  • Mrs. Birdie Hicks: [after getting the Kettles evicted] Good day.
  • Ma Kettle: [grabs Birdie] Listen here, Birdie, it may be a good day for you, but it ain't for Pa. All the poor man wanted was a new tobacco pouch, and instead he won a house he didn't want and he got a bad sunburn.
  • Ma Kettle: Now hang on there, Billy.
  • Danny Kettle: I'm Danny!
  • Ma Kettle: Nancy... Nancy hold still!
  • Susie Kettle: I'm Susie, Ma.
  • Ma Kettle: [She and Pa are watching themselves on the news, and they're showing more children than just their 15] Turn that thing off before our family gets any bigger!
  • Ma Kettle: [about Pa's underwear] It's the latest thing. Billy Reed said they'd fit perfectly.
  • Pa Kettle: They probably would if he were in them with me!
  • Ma Kettle: [laughs] Well, we'll just pin them up for right now, they'll shrink once I wash them.

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