List of the best Percy Kilbride movies: Ma and Pa Kettle at Home(1954), Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation(1953), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair(1952), Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town(1950), Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki(1955), George Washington Slept Here(1942), The Sun Comes Up(1949), Black Bart(1948), Riff-Raff(1947), The Egg and I(1947), You Gotta Stay Happy(1948), The Adventures of Mark Twain(1944) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1954
81 Minutes
Frank 'Pa' Kettle
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride Alan Mowbray Alice Kelley Brett Halsey Oliver Blake Stan Ross
Elwin Kettle might win a scholarship to an agricultural college. Essay contest judges Mannering and Crosby decide to choose between the two finalists by spending a weekend at the home of ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1953
75 Minutes
Pa Kettle
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride Ray Collins Sig Ruman Jack Kruschen Teddy Hart
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1952
78 Minutes
Pa Kettle
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride James Best Lori Nelson Esther Dale
country girl family patriarch mother nemesis daughter hilarious cheery lighthearted fair farm church small town washington state contest horse racing cooking young love education husband/wife relationship adventure
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Comedy
USA
1950
79 Minutes
Frank 'Pa' Kettle
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride Richard Long Jim Backus Hal March Meg Randall Charles McGraw
father mother bank robber partner son daughter-in-law madcap family home washington state new york city hotel police station vacation mistaken identity bank robbery baby-sitting theft deception pursuit adventure
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Comedy
1955
79 Minutes
Pa Kettle
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride Lori Nelson Lowell Gilmore Mabel Albertson Ida Moore
The rural Kettles (Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride) and their eldest daughter (Lori Nelson) run a cousin's pineapple factory in Hawaii.
Comedy
USA
1942
93 Minutes
Mr. 'Kimbie' Kimber
Jack Benny Ann Sheridan Charles Coburn Percy Kilbride Hattie McDaniel William Tracy Joyce Reynolds Lee Patrick
husband wife home owner repairman neighbor uncle madcap hilarious pennsylvania new york city marital problems houseguest home repairs george washington money discovery sacrifice rise 1940s
When Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie persuades Bill to buy a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house that George Washington allegedly slept in.
Musical
USA
1949
93 Minutes
Mr. Willie B. Williegood
Jeanette MacDonald Lloyd Nolan Claude Jarman Jr. Percy Kilbride Lewis Stone Nicholas Joy Margaret Hamilton Hope Landin Esther Somers Dwayne Hickman Teddy Infuhr
lassie widow orphan dog love interest emotional spirited heartwarming georgia countryside household orphanage rural community human-animal friendship orphans maternal instinct starting over grief discovery growing up
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and the dog that belonged to her ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1948
80 Minutes
Jersey Brady
Yvonne De Carlo Dan Duryea Jeffrey Lynn Percy Kilbride Lloyd Gough Frank Lovejoy John McIntire Don Beddoe Ray Walker Soledad Jimenez Eddy C. Walker
California stage robber Black Bart meets European dancer Lola Montez.
Adventure
1947
80 Minutes
Pop
Pat O'Brien Walter Slezak Anne Jeffreys Percy Kilbride Jerome Cowan George Givot Jason Robards Sr. Marc Krah Bonnie Blair Drew Miller
private investigator oil merchant singer tourist murder victim taxi driver intense brooding tense dark engaging uneasy panama oil business panama canal undiscovered lands private detective murder double-cross quest
A trouble-shooter (Pat O'Brien) woos a singer and foils a crook (Walter Slezak) while searching Panama for an oil map.
Comedy
1947
108 Minutes
Frank `'Pa'` Kettle
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Marjorie Main Louise Allbritton Percy Kilbride Richard Long Donald MacBride Samuel S. Hinds
man wife neighbor pig divorcée friend madcap outlandish cheery countryside farm barn city farming rural life dance jealousy fire mother/daughter relationship adventure
A broker (Fred MacMurray) and his bride (Claudette Colbert) leave the city to fix up a chicken farm next door to Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa Kettle.
Romance
1948
100 Minutes
Mr. Racknell
James Stewart Joan Fontaine Eddie Albert Roland Young Willard Parker Percy Kilbride Porter Hall Marcy McGuire Arthur Walsh William Bakewell Paul Cavanagh
Experiencing a change of heart on her wedding night, a socialite (Joan Fontaine) decides to find a companion more interesting than her husband.
Biography
USA
1944
130 Minutes
Billings, Enterprise Typesetter
Fredric March Alexis Smith Donald Crisp Alan Hale C. Aubrey Smith John Carradine Percy Kilbride
publisher wife widow friend writer charming lighthearted hannibal, miss. mississippi river nevada writer's block trapping american civil war celebrities marital problems mark twain growing up rise love 19th century
The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley's Comet returned.
Romance
USA
1945
87 Minutes
Judge Whittaker
Rosalind Russell Lee Bowman Adele Jergens Charles Winninger Harry Davenport Sara Haden Percy Kilbride
psychiatrist patient cartoonist soldier father lighthearted amusing new york city chicago train office family home unrequited love deception mental illness marriage love triangle sex love quest
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem,... See full summary »
Western
USA
1943
90 Minutes
Rev. Samuel Small
Albert Van Dekker Claire Trevor Barry Sullivan Henry Hull Marion Martin Porter Hall Percy Kilbride Beryl Wallace
sheriff chorus girl rancher mayor old man fiery tense engaging dodge city, kan. saloon bat masterson old west love triangle law enforcement vengeance rivalry love 1910s
Bat Masterson's girl tries to get him to give up gunfighting and become a respectable journalist, but Bat has other problems - his rival is in town gunning for him.
Drama
USA
1945
91 Minutes
Harmie
Zachary Scott Betty Field Beulah Bondi J. Carrol Naish Norman Lloyd Jay Gilpin Estelle Taylor Percy Kilbride Blanche Yurka
farmer wife grandmother emotional spirited moving texas farm farming aspirations poverty family quest love sacrifice underdog 1940s
The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1947
107 Minutes
Nat Dorkas
Bing Crosby Joan Caulfield Barry Fitzgerald Frank Faylen Elizabeth Patterson Robert Shayne Larry Young Percy Kilbride Charles Dingle Don Beddoe Thurston Hall
physician doctor schoolteacher pharmacist father schoolboy airy cheery charming train maine small town hospital office dance hall medical profession small-town life rivalry alcoholism vacation
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted to stay, ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1945
100 Minutes
Dave Miller
Jeanne Crain Dana Andrews Dick Haymes Vivian Blaine Charles Winninger Fay Bainter Donald Meek Frank McHugh Percy Kilbride Harry Morgan Jane Nigh
mother father daughter son singer reporter lighthearted heartwarming fair trailer iowa infatuation competition love triangle family growing up love quest 1940s
The Frake family attends the annual Iowa State Fair; each member of the clan has their own reason for doing so.
Drama
USA
1944
121 Minutes
John
Anne Baxter Ralph Bellamy Ruth Warrick Aline MacMahon Scott McKay Marie McDonald Jerome Cowan Margaret Hamilton Percy Kilbride
A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1950
112 Minutes
Bing Crosby Coleen Gray Charles Bickford Margaret Hamilton Frances Gifford James Gleason Raymond Walburn William Demarest Ward Bond Clarence Muse Percy Kilbride
patriarch sibling horse trainer heiress young man sister heartwarming rousing uplifting horse track house restaurant horse racing arranged marriage sister relationship family business love interest coming of age underdog love
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.