Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair is a 1952 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Charles Barton

Charles Barton

Charles Barton was a film and vaudeville actor and film director. He won an Oscar for best assistant director in 1933. His first film as a director was the Zane Grey feature Wagon Wheels.-Career:...

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The Cape Flattery County Fairis coming up, and Ma and Pa Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle are comic film characters of the successful film series of the same name, produced by Universal Studios, in the late '40s and '50s. They are a hillbilly couple with fifteen children whose lives turn upside-down when they win a model-home-of-the-future in a slogan-writing contest...

 are ready to compete with Birdie Hicks on the contests.

Synopsis

Ma and Pa Kettle are trying to raise money to send their daughter Rosie to college

College

A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...

. Ma decides to participate in contests at the county fair

County Fair

"County Fair" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was originally released as the second track on their 1962 album Surfin' Safari. On November 26th of that year, it was released as the B-side to The Beach Boys' third single, "Ten Little...

, and Pa buys Emma, an old tired horse, for the Harness Race. Birdie Hicks tries her best to successfully win all of the contests, but the Kettles are the ones who get the last laugh.

Cast

• Marjorie Main
  Marjorie Main
  Marjorie Main was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.-Early life and career:...
  
   as Ma Kettle
• Percy Kilbride
  Percy Kilbride
  Percy W. Kilbride was an American character actor. The son of Irish immigrants, he made a career of playing country hicks, most memorably as Pa Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of feature films.-Career:...
  
   as Pa Kettle
• Lori Nelson
  Lori Nelson
  Lori Nelson is an American actress born in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 15, 1933. She began as a performer, dancing at the young age of 4, as well as winning a Little Miss America title. Many of her early auditions were unsuccessful. However, in 1952, she made it into her first role as Marjie...
  
   as Rosie Kettle
• James Best
  James Best
  James Best is an American actor best known for his role as bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the CBS television series The Dukes of Hazzard. He has also worked as an acting coach, artist, and musician.-Early years:...
  
   as Marvin Johnson
• Esther Dale
  Esther Dale
  Esther Dale was an American actress, best known perhaps for her role as Aunt Genevieve in the 1935 Shirley Temple vehicle, Curly Top....
  
   as Birdie Hicks
• Emory Parnell
  Emory Parnell
  Emory Parnell was an American vaudevillian and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36 year career...
  
   as Billy Reed
• Oliver Blake as Geoduck
• Russell Simpson
  Russell Simpson (actor)
  Russell McCaskill Simpson was an American character actor.Born in San Francisco, California, Simpson is best known for his work in the films of John Ford and, in particular, for his portrayal of Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath in 1940.Simpson reportedly prospected for gold in Alaska in his youth,...
  
   as Clem Johnson
• Rex Lease
  Rex Lease
  Rex Lloyd Lease was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in westerns. Lease was accused in 1930 by Vivian Duncan of the Duncan Sisters for assault...
  
  as Sheriff

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