Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Charles Lamont
Written by	Jack Henley
Based on	The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Produced by	Leonard Goldstein
Starring	Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride
Cinematography	George Robinson
Edited by	Leonard Weiner
Music by	Herman Stein
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.2 million (US)^[1]

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the sixth installment of Universal-International's Ma and Pa Kettle series starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.

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Plot

In May 1953, Ma and Pa Kettle are invited, by their daughter-in-law Kim's parents, Jonathan and Elizabeth Parker, to a trip to Paris. Leaving the kids with an Indian babysitter, Ma and Pa head out to France on an airplane. Upon arrival, Pa tries to buy racy postcards, and they get caught into a circle with a famous gang of spies, who want an envelope that is in Pa's possession.^[2]

Cast

Marjorie Main as Ma Kettle
Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle
Ray Collins as Jonathan Parker
Barbara Brown as Elizabeth Parker
Bodil Miller as Inez Kraft
Sig Ruman as Cyrus Kraft
Oliver Blake as Geoduck
Teddy Hart as Crowbar
Ivan Triesault as Henri Dupre
Peter Brocco as Adolf Wade
Rosario Imperio as Apache Team (Indian babysitter)
Uncredited players include Gino Corrado, Jean De Briac, Lawrence Dobkin, John Eldredge and Franklyn Farnum

References

^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
^ {https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0046020/ }, Retrieved July 24, 2022.

External links

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation at IMDb

v t e Ma and Pa Kettle
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride
Films	The Egg and I Ma and Pa Kettle Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation Ma and Pa Kettle at Home Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki The Kettles in the Ozarks The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
Related media	The Egg and I (book) Maw & Paw (cartoon)
Settings	Kettle Farm Cape Flattery

Films directed by Charles Lamont

Tomorrow's Youth (1934)
Sons of Steel (1934)
The Curtain Falls (1934)
A Shot in the Dark (1935)
False Pretenses (1935)
One Run Elmer (1935)
The Dark Hour (1936)
Below the Deadline (1936)
Bulldog Edition (1936)
August Weekend (1936)
Wallaby Jim of the Islands (1937)
International Crime (1938)
Slander House (1938)
Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
Cipher Bureau (1938)
Long Shot (1939)
Pride of the Navy (1939)
Verbena Tragica (1939)
Little Accident (1939)
Oh Johnny, How You Can Love (1940)
Sandy Is a Lady (1940)
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940)
Give Us Wings (1940)
San Antonio Rose (1941)
Road Agent (1941)
Sing Another Chorus (1941)
Moonlight in Hawaii (1941)
Melody Lane (1941)
Don't Get Personal (1942)
Almost Married (1942)
You're Telling Me (1942)
Hi, Neighbor (1942)
Get Hep to Love (1942)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942)
It Comes Up Love (1943)
Mister Big (1943)
Hit the Ice (1943)
Fired Wife (1943)
Top Man (1943)
Chip Off the Old Block (1944)
Her Primitive Man (1944)
The Merry Monahans (1944)
Bowery to Broadway (1944)
Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
That's the Spirit (1945)
Frontier Gal (1946)
The Runaround (1946)
The Untamed Breed (1948)
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
Bagdad (1949)
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
Flame of Araby (1951)
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953)
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)
Ricochet Romance (1954)
Untamed Heiress (1954)
Carolina Cannonball (1955)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Lay That Rifle Down (1955)
The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
Francis in the Haunted House (1956)

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