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The Egg and I

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The Egg and I
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NR,1hr 44min
Genres:
Comedy,Romance
Released:
March 21, 1947
Director:
Chester Erskine
Starring:
Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main  ...more
Synopsis: Based on the humorous autobiographical book by Betty McDonald, The Egg & I casts Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray as Manhattan-dwelling newlyweds. When MacMurray enthusiastically purchases an upstate farm in the hopes of cleaning up in the egg business, Colbert cautiously goes along. The film's humor is derived from the efforts of these two hopelessly citified slickers to adapt themselves to the rigors of rural life. In a plot complication added to the film, pretty neighbor Louise Allbritton ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
Though it's largely overlooked today, The Egg and I helped spawn two separate pop-culture phenomena a decade and a half apart. Its most obvious direction offshoot manifestation is the Ma and Pa Kettle movies, which were built around two characters (played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) from the movie and the original book by Betty MacDonald. It was also the distant precursor to the 1960s television ... Full Review
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Claudette Colbert
Betty MacDonald
Fred MacMurray
Bob MacDonald
Marjorie Main
Ma Kettle
Percy Kilbride
Pa Kettle
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