Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch

This story began way back at the turn of the century as a novel by Alice Hegan Rice. It was then adapted for the stage by Anne Crawford Flexner in 1904, made as a silent in 1919, and then became a film in 1934. The 1942 remake was a disappointment. Produced by silent screen star Douglas MacLean, this version was, by far, the best of the lot, mostly due to the presence of two superior farceurs, Fields and Pitts. Lord lives in a shantytown shack with her quintet of children, Butler, Fellows, Johnson, Weidler, and Breakston (check the cast names for her daughters) and their dog. Butler finds an old horse that's about to be put to pasture (or to sleep) and the animal i...