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By Lisa Yorgey Lester

At the same time Universal Studios released the dinosaur mega-hit, it also released six Ma and Pa Kettle titles — a popular 1940s film series chronicling the adventures of a hillbilly husband and wife and their clan of 15 unruly children. Frebowitz says the Kettle series was “a rare and obscure choice for Universal to make, but we’d been begging them for that kind of stuff,” and so Universal took a chance.