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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Norman Taurog released in USA on 28 october 1934 with Pauline Lord
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
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Add to a movie listMrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1934 American comedy-drama film, directed by Norman Taurog, and based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The film stars Broadway stage actress Pauline Lord in one of only two films she appeared in. ZaSu Pitts and W. C. Fields appear in supporting roles.
The 1934 version is the third film adaption of the novel. The first film version was released in 1914, starring Blanche Chapman. The second version was released in 1919 and stars Mary Carr, while the fourth version was released in 1942 and stars Fay Bainter. The book was also adapted into a radio series which aired from 1935 to 1938.
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Mrs. Wiggs (Lord), facing eviction, scrabbles for survival with her number of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before, looking for gold in the Klondike. The family owns the shack but it has a mortgage of $25 (in 1901, about $675 in today's money) and the evil moneylender is threatening them. Mrs. Wiggs is a laundress but can't manage to save enough back because whatever extra money she gets is used to help others, often animals. The oldest son, James, has worked hard all his life, but now is seriously ill with tuberculosis. The little girls are all named "out of geography", Europena (Virginia Weidler), Asia (Carmencita Johnson) and Australia (Edith Fellows). The second-oldest boy, Billy (Jimmy Butler), is something of an entrepreneur. When he finds a spavined and dying horse he brings it home and the family nurses it back to reasonable health, naming it Cuba. Neighbor Tabitha Hazy (ZaSu Pitts) seeks a husband and takes out a subscription to "The Matrimonial Guide", the 1901 version of a dating service.Actors
Pauline Lord
(Mrs. Wiggs)
W. C. Fields
(Mr. Stubbins)
Zasu Pitts
(Miss Hazy)
Evelyn Venable
(Lucy Olcott)
Kent Taylor
(Bob Redding)
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