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Mother Carey’s Chickens (1938 film)

By | On April 17, 2015 | Updated January 14, 2019 | Comments (0)

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Kate Douglas Wiggin, the film version of Mother Carey’s Chickens must have resonated as much or more when it came out in 1938, in the waning days of the depression.

Starring Anne Shirley in the lead role as Nancy, and Ruby Keeler as her sister Katherine, or Kitty. The film was based on the 1917 stage adaptation of the same novel. Fay Bainter portrayed Mrs. Margaret “Mother Carey.” Read More→

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Mother Carey’s Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin (1911)

By | On April 17, 2015 | Updated September 21, 2022 | Comments (0)

From the original review of Mother Carey’s Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin in the New York Times, September, 1911:  Here is a tale of motherhood and childhood which will come close to the hearts of the multitudinous “common people” who are the salt and salvation of the American nation.

It is Mother Carey’s Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin. There is not a lord nor a villain in the story, nor a millionaire, nor a beggar. There is no study of society, nor any intrigues nor immorality. Read More→

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