Word: wiggins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother Carey's Chickens (RKO Radio) is Kate Douglas Wiggin's folksy story of the ups & downs of a horse-&-buggy family. Filmed with a heartiness and warmth calculated to reawaken memories of toasty nights around the parlor baseburner, Mother Carey's Chickens joins Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's homely Judge Hardy and Twentieth Century-Fox's happy-go-lucky Jones Family in cinema's new grand march to the tune of Home, Sweet Home...
Pausing in their eager, pathetic quest for a happy, permanent roost, Mother Carey's cinema chicks scratch up a few adventures that were not of Mrs. Wiggin's planting, but whatever they unearth is homey stuff. Little Peter (Donnie Dunagan) prattles through an experiment in paperhanging with a three-year-old's matchless deviltry; adolescent Gilbert (Jackie Moranj finds his voice cracking just when he needs dignity most; Lally Joy (Virginia Weidler), thrifty Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over...
...crash last week. Cafeteria society was shocked, too, and downtown they were taking it harder than any other financial scandal of the century. True, Joseph Wright Harriman and Bernard K. Marcus had misapplied bank funds and been sent to jail. Charley Mitchell was penalized for tax deficiencies and Al Wiggin had paid off stockholders to stop their suits. There was old Sam Insull, too, although Wall Street is never very surprised at the shenanigans of a Chicagoan. But Dick Whitney was a Morgan broker. He was the President of the New York Stock Exchange for five years...
...cinemoppets would be capable of bringing to life the character, imagination and enterprise of Kate Douglas Wiggin's calico-&-pigtails heroine. Smirking, preciously gifted, 9-year-old Shirley Temple is not one of the few. In print, spunky, romancy Rebecca sold soap orders, wrote soaring rhymes, brought a whiff of fresh air into a stuffy New England scene. To the cinema version, warped to suit her rapidly narrowing talents, Shirley brings her dimples, a few precocious songs, two tap dances, and cements three adult romances-two over par, even for Shirley...
Accepting nothing but the title of Kate Douglas Wiggin's pig-tailed story, "Rebecca" makes a brave effort to amuse. Surrounded by pleasant people (Gloria Stuart, Randolph Scott, Bill Robinson, Slim Summerville), Miss Temple gives a mature and finished performance within a plot that seems somewhat septuagenarian. It is about Little Miss America, her starched Aunt Miranda, and a vigorous radio executive, and it ends in music...