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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

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A woman (Pauline Lord) scrapes by with her five children and neighbors (W.C. Fields, ZaSu Pitts), waiting for her husband to come home.

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Otis Ferguson The New Republic 02/18/2022
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch will do to illustrate a trend in humor that we might be happy to see the last of: it is in the smile-with-a-tear tradition, all so beastly clean and wholesome. Go to Full Review Ann Ross Maclean's Magazine 10/08/2019
I couldn't get much worked up about Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch... though it had a lot of fine people in it. Go to Full Review Helen Brown Norden Vanity Fair 06/07/2019
Personally, it's a little too dripping with sentiment... Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Jerry R Oct 4 Simple, not a bad word. Heart-warming, not a bad description. Filled with human emotion and desire. Well worth the time See more 09/29/2017 Badly dated melodrama with racist caricature and sexist ideas. A late-entering W.C. Fields can't save this one. See more 11/01/2015 'Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch' is best viewed as a look back to an earlier time -- before there was a safety net for the poor. It isn't about "how wonderful it is to be poor" (whoever wrote that description is a fool) but, instead, it's about surviving through dire poverty. As drama it's poor, as comedy it's antiquated, but it is very interesting throughout. Depression audiences must have identified with it -- this film was released in 1934, not 1919. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Norman Taurog

Director

Pauline Lord

Mrs. Wiggs

W.C. Fields

Mr. Stubbins

ZaSu Pitts

Miss Hazy

Evelyn Venable

Lucy Olcott

Kent Taylor

Bob Redding
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Movie Info

Synopsis A woman (Pauline Lord) scrapes by with her five children and neighbors (W.C. Fields, ZaSu Pitts), waiting for her husband to come home.
Director
Norman Taurog
Producer
Douglas MacLean
Screenwriter
William Slavens McNutt, Jane Storm
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 20m