- Mother Carey's Chickens (film)
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Mother Carey's Chickens Directed by Rowland V. Lee Produced by Pandro S. Berman Written by S.K. Lauren
Gertrude PurcellStarring Anne Shirley
Ruby KeelerCinematography J. Roy Hunt Editing by George Hively Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures Release date(s) July 29, 1938 Running time 82 minutes Country 
United StatesLanguage English 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.
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Plot
Mr. Carey (Frank 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.
When the Hamiltons put the house up for sale, the family is given an eviction order by Tom Hamilton, a doctor who wants the money from the sale to study in Europe. However fate intervenes and Tom saves Peter from a serious illness, then falls in love with Nancy. The new owners, the Fullers, move in to force the family to vacate. The Careys and their beaus try to avoid being put out of their house by scaring off the Fullers.[1]
Cast
- Anne Shirley - Nancy Carey
- Ruby Keeler - Katherine 'Kitty' Carey
- James Ellison - Ralph Thurston
- Fay Bainter - Mrs. Margaret Carey
- Walter Brennan - Mr. Ossian Popham
- Donnie Dunagan - Peter Carey
- Frank Albertson - Tom Hamilton Jr.
- Alma Kruger - Aunt Bertha
- Jackie Moran - Gilbert Carey
- Margaret Hamilton - Mrs. Pauline Fuller
- Virginia Weidler - Lally Joy Popham
- Ralph Morgan - Captain John Carey
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Films directed by Rowland V. Lee 1920s Blind Hearts (1921) · The Sea Lion (1921) · The Outsider (1926) · Barbed Wire (1927) · Three Sinners (1928) · A Dangerous Woman (1929)1930s The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930) · Ladies Love Brutes (1930) · The Guilty Generation (1931) · That Night in London (1932) · Zoo in Budapest (1933) · I am Suzanne (1933) · The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) · Cardinal Richelieu (1935) · The Three Musketeers (1935) · One Rainy Afternoon (1936) · Love from a Stranger (1937) · The Toast of New York (1937) · Mother Carey's Chickens (1938) · Son of Frankenstein (1939) · Tower of London (1939)1940s Categories:- 1938 films
- American films
- Black-and-white films
- RKO Pictures films
- 1930s drama films
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