The Kettles get the Aloha spirit as they take some time out to travel to Honolulu, Hawaii. “Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki” is the seventh film in the series starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.
In this episode, Pa Kettle is asked to help out his cousin Rodney with his failing pineapple business. There are tons of laughs from the screenplay by Jack Henley, Harry Clark, and Elwood Ullman, with focused direction by Lee Sholem (“Superman and the Mole Men” 1951).
The supporting cast is headed by Hilo Hattie, the legendary Hawaiian entertainer, as Mama Lotus, head of a large family similar to the Kettles. Others include Loring Smith as Rodney Kettle, Russell Johnson (the Professor of “Gilligan’s Island”), Mabel Anderson, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer, Lowell Gilmore, and Esther Dale.
The watchable black-and-white laugh-fest “Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki” was popular at the box office for Universal Pictures and Universal-International. It was actually filmed in 1952, but not released until 1955. This would be Kilbride’s final role as Pa Kettle.
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)
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The Kettles get the Aloha spirit as they take some time out to travel to Honolulu, Hawaii. “Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki” is the seventh film in the series starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.
In this episode, Pa Kettle is asked to help out his cousin Rodney with his failing pineapple business. There are tons of laughs from the screenplay by Jack Henley, Harry Clark, and Elwood Ullman, with focused direction by Lee Sholem (“Superman and the Mole Men” 1951).
The supporting cast is headed by Hilo Hattie, the legendary Hawaiian entertainer, as Mama Lotus, head of a large family similar to the Kettles. Others include Loring Smith as Rodney Kettle, Russell Johnson (the Professor of “Gilligan’s Island”), Mabel Anderson, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer, Lowell Gilmore, and Esther Dale.
The watchable black-and-white laugh-fest “Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki” was popular at the box office for Universal Pictures and Universal-International. It was actually filmed in 1952, but not released until 1955. This would be Kilbride’s final role as Pa Kettle.