Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch: Directed by Ralph Murphy. With Fay Bainter, Hugh Herbert, Barbara Jo Allen, Carolyn Lee. In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1942 American comedy-drama film starring Fay Bainter and directed by Ralph Murphy. It was based on the play by Anne Crawford Flexner that premiered on Broadway in 1904, [1] which was in turn adapted from the 1901 novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice .
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by American author Alice Hegan Rice, about a southern family humorously coping with poverty. It was highly popular on its release, [1] and has been adapted to film several times.
Ever since her husband left for the Klondike gold fields three years earlier, Mrs. Elvira Wiggs has raised her children with a bounty of love in the poverty-stricken area known as the Cabbage Patch. When her son Billy finds an abandoned sick horse, Mrs. Wiggs works to revive the animal to help Billy with his wood-hauling business.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Norman Taurog. It is based on the 1904 Broadway play by Anne Crawford Flexner, which was taken from the novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The film stars Broadway stage actress Pauline Lord, ZaSu Pitts and W. C. Fields.
Synopsis. Mrs. Elvira Wiggs has been rearing her children, Jimmy, Billy, Europena, Asia and Australia, alone for three years since her husband Hiram left for the Klondike. The family is destitute, living in the shantytown of Cabbage Patch, and faces a dismal Thanksgiving.
Overview. 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.
