Marjorie Main
Born in Acton, Indiana, USA — Feb 22 1890• Died Apr 10 1975
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 voi…
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Marjorie Main's Credits
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Wagon Train
Cassie Tanner
December Bride
Meet Me in St. Louis
Katie
The Harvey Girls
Sonora Cassidy
Another Thin Man
Mrs. Dolley (uncredited)
The Women
Lucy
Dead End
Mrs. Martin
Heaven Can Wait
Mrs. Strabel
A Woman's Face
Emma Kristiansdotter
Friendly Persuasion
The Widow Hudspeth
Too Hot to Handle
Miss Wayne
The Egg and I
Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
The Long, Long Trailer
Mrs. Hittaway
Undercurrent
Lucy
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Widow Hawkins
Girls' School
Miss Armstrong
Stella Dallas
Mrs. Martin
Honky Tonk
Mrs. Varner
Three Comrades
Old woman by phone (uncredited)
Prison Farm
Matron Brand
The Law and the Lady
Julia Wortin
Summer Stock
Esme
Angels Wash Their Faces
Mrs. Arkelian
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
Rose Marie
Lady Jane Dunstock
Test Pilot
Landlady
The Shepherd of the Hills
Granny Becky
It's a Big Country
Mrs. Wrenley
Susan and God
Mary
They Shall Have Music
Mrs. Miller
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Ma Kettle
Big Jack
Flapjack Kate
Mr. Imperium
Mrs. Cabot
Turnabout
Nora, the Cook
Music in the Air
Anna (Uncredited)
Bad Bascomb
Abbey Hanks
The Bugle Sounds
Susie 'Suz'
Dark Command
Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams
Crime Without Passion
Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Penitentiary
Miss Katie Mathews
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Ma Kettle
The Affairs of Martha
Mrs. McKissick
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Maribel Mathews
Wyoming
Mehitabel
Johnny Come Lately
'Gashouse' Mary
A House Divided
Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited)
The Shadow
Hannah Gillespie
The Wrong Road
Martha Foster
Lucky Night
Mrs. Briggs
Gentle Annie
Annie Goss
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Harriet O'Malley
Art Trouble
Woman Who Sits on Painting
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Ma Kettle
Women Without Names
Mrs. Lowery
We Were Dancing
Judge Hawkes
Tish
Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Ma' Kettle
Tennessee Johnson
Mrs. Maude Fisher
Hot Saturday
Gossip in Window (uncredited)
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Ma Kettle
Broken Lullaby
Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited)
Ricochet Romance
Pansy Jones
Ma and Pa Kettle
Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Ma Kettle
Fast Company
Ma Parkson
Love in a Bungalow
Miss Emma Bisbee
Rationing
Iris Tuttle
Murder, He Says
Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson
The World of Abbott and Costello
Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap
Barnacle Bill
Marge Cavendish
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
Ma Kettle
Romance of the Limberlost
Nora
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Ma Kettle
There Goes My Heart
Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited)
The Show-Off
Mrs. Fisher
The Wild Man of Borneo
Irma, the Cook
The Belle of New York
Mrs Phineas Hill
Boy of the Streets
Mrs. Mary Brennan
King of the Newsboys
Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Mrs. Collins
The Captain is a Lady
Sarah May Willett
I Take This Woman
Gertie
Close Relations
Woman in Depot (uncredited)
Jackass Mail
Clementine 'Tina' Tucker
Little Tough Guy
Mrs. Boylan
Two Thoroughbreds
Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Amelia Bradley
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
Esme (archive footage) (uncredited)
Under the Big Top
Sara Post
New Deal Rhythm
Arizona Representative
Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties
Statler Hotel Beauty