![]() ![]() MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. ![]() In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. The public was drawn to MacDonald’s vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. ![]()
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