Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
"BUNDLING" It's Not Necking! Not Kissing! Not Petting! What Is It?
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
- Date of release
- 1934-10-28
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Norman Taurog
Casting
- Pauline Lord — Mrs. Wiggs
- Kent Taylor — Bob Redding
- Zasu Pitts — Miss Hazy
- George P. Breakston — Jimmy Wiggs
- Jimmy Butler — Billy Wiggs
- Virginia Weidler — Europena Wiggs
- Edith Fellows — Australia Wiggs
- Carmencita Johnson — Asia Wiggs
- Charles Middleton — Mr. Bagby
- Evelyn Venable — Lucy Olcott
- W.C. Fields — Mr. Stubbins
- Donald Meek — Mr. Wiggs
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Los Angeles
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Norman Taurog. It is based on the 1904 Broadway play by Anne Crawford Flexner, which was taken from the novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The film stars Broadway stage actress Pauline Lord, ZaSu Pitts and W. C. Fields.
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