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Mother Carey's Chickens is a american film of genre Drama directed by Rowland V. Lee released in USA on 29 july 1938 with Anne Shirley

Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)

Mother Carey's Chickens
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Released in USA 29 july 1938
Length 1h22
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating62% 3.141693.141693.141693.141693.14169

Mother Carey's Chickens is a 1938 drama film starring Anne Shirley and Ruby Keeler. The film was directed by Rowland V. Lee and based upon a 1917 play by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Rachel Crothers, which in turn was adapted from Wiggins' novel of the same title.

Originally Katharine Hepburn was assigned to the lead role. She refused, however, and left RKO in order to avoid having to appear in the film.

In 1963, Walt Disney released Summer Magic, a loose remake of this film, with Hayley Mills as Nancy Carey.

Synopsis

Mr. Carey (Ralph Morgan), a captain in the United States Navy, dies during the Spanish–American War. His wife Margaret, daughters Nancy and Kitty and sons Gilbert and Peter are left behind. They are now on their own with only Capt. Carey's pension for income. The family moves into a series of ever-smaller rented houses while Mrs. Carey works in a textile mill. When she is injured, they lease a broken down mansion for a year at a nominal fee, and invest the captain's small life insurance payment to fix it up into a boarding house. Both daughters fall in love, Kitty with a local teacher and Nancy with Tom Hamilton (Frank Albertson), the son of the absentee owner.

Actors

Anne Shirley

(Nancy Carey)Ruby Keeler

(Kitty Carey)James Ellison

(Ralph Thurston)Fay Bainter

(Mrs. Margaret Carey)Walter Brennan

(Ossian Popham)
And :
Donnie Dunagan
Frank Albertson
Alma Kruger
Jackie Moran
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