The Egg And I

The Egg and I is the first in the Ma & Pa Kettle movie series, or rather, it was seeing the Kettles in this movie that began the highly successful Ma & Pa Kettle movie series.  This theatrical film starred Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert as a city couple who take a farm.  think Green Acres, and you have a fairly stunning notion of the basic position, except Colbert is considerable more willing to be a farm wife than Eva Gabor was in the TV series.  In fact, I read that the movie was the inspiration for the hit TV series
MacMurray and Colbert made a large on hide couple and appeared in many motion pictures together.  I like all of them.  This one was fun because it space aside them in this fresh setting and depicted how they came to terms with life on the farm.



There are several sparkling neighbors for the couple to deal with, including the Kettles.  Marjorie Main played Ma with Percy Kilbride as Pa.  They have 15 kids who range in age from a exiguous baby to the oldest, high school graduate Tom who wants to go college.  Playing Tom is Richard Long, who is probably best known as Jarrod Barkley on The substantial Valley.  To be just, you waste up wondering how Tom grew up as he did when you ogle his parents.  He looks more like The expansive Valley lawyer he later played than the product of a limited town farming couple.
Overall, I do like the movie, but the crucial last fraction is something I have never been joyful about.  It concerns the couple's separation and the birth of their child.  I insist it is suitable humor, and certainly the movie plot flows nicely, but I unprejudiced do not agree with Colbert's character essentially taking off and having a baby without even telling her husband.
Colbert is very believable as the city gal who has to learn how to feed the pigs and gather the eggs, while MacMurray fits in perfectly as the well intentioned man living his dream.  If you have not seen The Egg and I yet, have time to explore it when you can.