Marjorie Main
Acting
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Marjorie Main (born Mary Tomlinson, February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975) was an American actress, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player and for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.
Main worked in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit and in Chautauqua presentations, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931.
Main began playing upper class dowagers, but ultimately was typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles, for which her distinctive voice was well suited. She repeated her…
Filmography
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Summer Stock: Get Happy!
2006
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
Wagon Train
1957
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
1957
Friendly Persuasion
1956
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955
Ricochet Romance
1954
December Bride
1954
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954
Rose Marie
1954
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
Fast Company
1953
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
The Belle of New York
1952
It's a Big Country
1951
The Law and the Lady
1951
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
1951
Mr. Imperium
1951
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950
Summer Stock
1950
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
Big Jack
1949
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1948
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947
The Egg and I
1947
The Show-Off
1946
Undercurrent
1946
Bad Bascomb
1946
The Harvey Girls
1946
Murder, He Says
1945
Gentle Annie
1944
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
Rationing
1944
Johnny Come Lately
1943
Heaven Can Wait
1943
Tennessee Johnson
1942
Tish
1942
Jackass Mail
1942
The Affairs of Martha
1942
We Were Dancing
1942
The Bugle Sounds
1942
Honky Tonk
1941
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
A Woman's Face
1941
Barnacle Bill
1941
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941
The Wild Man of Borneo
1941
Wyoming
1940
The Captain is a Lady
1940
Susan and God
1940
Turnabout
1940
Dark Command
1940
Women Without Names
1940
I Take This Woman
1940
Two Thoroughbreds
1939
Another Thin Man
1939
The Women
1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939
They Shall Have Music
1939
Lucky Night
1939
There Goes My Heart
1938
Girls' School
1938
Too Hot to Handle
1938
Under the Big Top
1938
Little Tough Guy
1938
Prison Farm
1938
Romance of the Limberlost
1938
Three Comrades
1938
Test Pilot
1938
King of the Newsboys
1938
Penitentiary
1938
Boy of the Streets
1938
City Girl
1938
The Shadow
1937
The Wrong Road
1937
The Man Who Cried Wolf
1937
Dead End
1937