Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
"BUNDLING" It's Not Necking! Not Kissing! Not Petting! What Is It?
80 min
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.
- Release date
- October 28, 1934
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Pauline Lord as Mrs. Wiggs
- W.C. Fields as Mr. Stubbins
- Zasu Pitts as Miss Hazy
- Evelyn Venable as Lucy Olcott
- Kent Taylor as Bob Redding
- Donald Meek as Mr. Wiggs
- Jimmy Butler as Billy Wiggs
- George P. Breakston as Jimmy Wiggs
- Virginia Weidler as Europena Wiggs
- Carmencita Johnson as Asia Wiggs
Crew
- Norman Taurog · Director
- William Slavens McNutt · Writer
- Jane Storm · Writer
- Alice Hegan Rice · Writer
- Anne Crawford Flexner · Writer
- Douglas MacLean · Producer
- Charles Lang · Cinematographer