
Marjorie Main
Biography
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 abras…
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Filmography
Acting (91)
Movies (89)
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
2006as Esme (archive footage) (uncredited)
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965as Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
1957as Ma Kettle
Friendly Persuasion
1956as The Widow Hudspeth
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956as Ma Kettle
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955as Ma' Kettle
The Long, Long Trailer
1954as Mrs. Hittaway
Rose Marie
1954as Lady Jane Dunstock
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954as Ma Kettle
Ricochet Romance
1954as Pansy Jones
Fast Company
1953as Ma Parkson
The Belle of New York
1952as Mrs Phineas Hill
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1952as Ma Kettle
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952as Ma Kettle
Mr. Imperium
1951as Mrs. Cabot
It's a Big Country
1951as Mrs. Wrenley
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
1951as Ma Kettle
The Law and the Lady
1951as Julia Wortin
Summer Stock
1950as Esme
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950as Ma Kettle
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950as Harriet O'Malley
Big Jack
1949as Flapjack Kate
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949as Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1948as Maribel Mathews
The Egg and I
1947as Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947as Widow Hawkins
Undercurrent
1946as Lucy
Bad Bascomb
1946as Abbey Hanks
The Harvey Girls
1946as Sonora Cassidy
The Show-Off
1946as Mrs. Fisher
Murder, He Says
1945as Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944as Katie
Gentle Annie
1944as Annie Goss
Rationing
1944as Iris Tuttle
Johnny Come Lately
1943as 'Gashouse' Mary
Heaven Can Wait
1943as Mrs. Strabel
The Bugle Sounds
1942as Susie 'Suz'
Jackass Mail
1942as Clementine 'Tina' Tucker
We Were Dancing
1942as Judge Hawkes
Tish
1942as Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry
Tennessee Johnson
1942as Mrs. Maude Fisher
The Affairs of Martha
1942as Mrs. McKissick
A Woman's Face
1941as Emma Kristiansdotter
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941as Granny Becky
The Wild Man of Borneo
1941as Irma, the Cook
Honky Tonk
1941as Mrs. Varner
Barnacle Bill
1941as Marge Cavendish
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941as Mrs. Collins
Wyoming
1940as Mehitabel
I Take This Woman
1940as Gertie
Dark Command
1940as Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams
Women Without Names
1940as Mrs. Lowery
Susan and God
1940as Mary
Turnabout
1940as Nora, the Cook
The Captain is a Lady
1940as Sarah May Willett
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939as Mrs. Arkelian
The Women
1939as Lucy
Another Thin Man
1939as Mrs. Dolley (uncredited)
Lucky Night
1939as Mrs. Briggs
They Shall Have Music
1939as Mrs. Miller
Two Thoroughbreds
1939as Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey
Penitentiary
1938as Miss Katie Mathews
Girls' School
1938as Miss Armstrong
Test Pilot
1938as Landlady
Prison Farm
1938as Matron Brand
Too Hot to Handle
1938as Miss Wayne
Three Comrades
1938as Old woman by phone (uncredited)
There Goes My Heart
1938as Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited)
Boy of the Streets
1938as Mrs. Mary Brennan
King of the Newsboys
1938as Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)
Under the Big Top
1938as Sara Post
Romance of the Limberlost
1938as Nora
Little Tough Guy
1938as Mrs. Boylan
The Man Who Cried Wolf
1937as Amelia Bradley
Stella Dallas
1937as Mrs. Martin
Dead End
1937as Mrs. Martin
Love in a Bungalow
1937as Miss Emma Bisbee
The Wrong Road
1937as Martha Foster
The Shadow
1937as Hannah Gillespie
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936as Self
Art Trouble
1934as Woman Who Sits on Painting
Music in the Air
1934as Anna (Uncredited)
Crime Without Passion
1934as Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Close Relations
1933as Woman in Depot (uncredited)
New Deal Rhythm
1933as Arizona Representative
Hot Saturday
1932as Gossip in Window (uncredited)
Broken Lullaby
1932as Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited)
A House Divided
1931as Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited)
Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties
1929as Statler Hotel Beauty
Television (2)
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