MA & PA KETTLE (personality)

Ma and Pa Kettle were comic characters from a successful Universal film series of the same name in the 1940s and the 1950s. They are a married hillbilly couple who first appeared in a book by Betty MacDonald. Ma Kettle was played by Marjorie Main and Pa Kettle was played by Percy Kilbride. The films are often credited with saving Universal studios from bankruptcy.