Katt Shea on
The Egg and I
As big a hit as it was, this progenitor of Green Acres probably wouldn’t have been rereleased if supporting characters Ma and Pa Kettle hadn’t broken out and spawned nine more popular barnyard comedies.
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Writer-director Katt Shea has been honored with retrospectives of her critically acclaimed films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The British Film Institute in London and various festivals throughout Europe. Her work includes: Poison Ivy starring Drew Barrymore and Tom Skerritt, The Rage: Carrie II, and Dance of the Damned.
Thank you for your commentary. However, I can’t be as enthusiastic about it as you are. I read the book before seeing the movie, and in the book the Kettles are horrible people – a pair of grasping moochers. And yes, MacDonald did divorce her husband after the events depicted in the book. MacDonald wrote three more books based on her life. One, “The Plague and I”, describes a year she spent in a TB sanitarium, and is really good. One of the characters in MacDonald’s book is based on Monica Sone, the Japanese-American author, who was in the sanitarium at the same time as MacDonald. Later, Sone was interred during the war, and wrote the classic memoir “Nisei Daughter” about her experiences in the internment camp.