In the 1947 version of the adaptation, MacDonald was enacted by Claudete Colbert. They would be so popular that it was not long before production companies approached Betty and turned the series into several films featuring the eponymous duo.
It was in this novel that she introduced Ma and Pa Kettle that would go on to become one of the most popular of her characters. The novel was based on her life living at a chicken farm in Chimacum Valley. MacDonald made waves with her very first novel “The Egg and I” that would be translated into more than 20 languages and become a bestselling title. The family would ultimately move to Carmel Valley in California in 1956. The two would then move to Vashon Island from where she penned most of her bestselling novels. In 1942 she got married to Donald C Macdonald from whom she took her writing name. Betty would spend nearly a year in hospital where he was treated for Tuberculosis before she was released. In 1931 she left Heskett and went back to Seattle where she was forced to work all manner of jobs to support Joan and Anne, her two daughters since she did not have any contact with her husband after their divorce. With her husband Robert Eugene Heskett the two would live on the Olympic Peninsula at a chicken farm near Port Townsend. MacDonald would graduate from Roosevelt High School in 1924 and would get married three years later aged only twenty years.
She was born in Boulder Colorado but her family moved to Capitol Hill in Seattle in 1918 before they settled in Roosevelt in 1922. Betty MacDonald is a bestselling children’s books novelist born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard.
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