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Marjorie Main

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

22/02/1890

Day of Death

10/04/1975
(85) years old

Place of Birth

Acton, Indiana, USA

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 Orph... Read More

Known For

Summer Stock: Get Happy!

The World of Abbott and Costello

The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm

Friendly Persuasion

The Kettles in the Ozarks

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

Ricochet Romance

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

Rose Marie

The Long, Long Trailer

Filmography

Cast

2006

Summer Stock: Get Happy!

as Esme (archive footage) (uncredited)

1965

The World of Abbott and Costello

as Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wa...

1957

The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm

as Ma Kettle

1956

Friendly Persuasion

as The Widow Hudspeth

1956

The Kettles in the Ozarks

as Ma Kettle

1955

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

as Ma' Kettle

1954

Ricochet Romance

as Pansy Jones

1954

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

as Ma Kettle

1954

Rose Marie

as Lady Jane Dunstock

1954

The Long, Long Trailer

as Mrs. Hittaway

1953

Fast Company

as Ma Parkson

1952

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

as Ma Kettle

1952

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

as Ma Kettle

1952

The Belle of New York

as Mrs Phineas Hill

1951

It's a Big Country

as Mrs. Wrenley

1951

The Law and the Lady

as Julia Wortin

1951

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

as Ma Kettle

1951

Mr. Imperium

as Mrs. Cabot

1950

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

as Harriet O'Malley

1950

Summer Stock

as Esme

1950

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

as Ma Kettle

1949

Big Jack

as Flapjack Kate

1949

Ma and Pa Kettle

as Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle

1948

Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'

as Maribel Mathews

1947

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

as Widow Hawkins

1947

The Egg and I

as Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle

1946

The Show-Off

as Mrs. Fisher

1946

Undercurrent

as Lucy

1946

Bad Bascomb

as Abbey Hanks

1946

The Harvey Girls

as Sonora Cassidy

1945

Murder, He Says

as Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson

1944

Gentle Annie

as Annie Goss

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Katie

1944

Rationing

as Iris Tuttle

1943

Johnny Come Lately

as 'Gashouse' Mary

1943

Heaven Can Wait

as Mrs. Strabel

1942

Tennessee Johnson

as Mrs. Maude Fisher

1942

Tish

as Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry

1942

Jackass Mail

as Clementine 'Tina' Tucker

1942

The Affairs of Martha

as Mrs. McKissick

1942

We Were Dancing

as Judge Hawkes

1942

The Bugle Sounds

as Susie 'Suz'

1941

Honky Tonk

as Mrs. Varner

1941

The Shepherd of the Hills

as Granny Becky

1941

A Woman's Face

as Emma Kristiansdotter

1941

Barnacle Bill

as Marge Cavendish

1941

The Trial of Mary Dugan

as Mrs. Collins

1941

The Wild Man of Borneo

as Irma, the Cook

1940

Wyoming

as Mehitabel

1940

The Captain Is a Lady

as Sarah May Willett

1940

Susan and God

as Mary

1940

Turnabout

as Nora, the Cook

1940

Dark Command

as Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams

1940

Women Without Names

as Mrs. Lowery

1940

I Take This Woman

as Gertie

1939

Two Thoroughbreds

as Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey

1939

Another Thin Man

as Mrs. Dolley (uncredited)

1939

The Women

as Lucy

1939

Angels Wash Their Faces

as Mrs. Arkelian

1939

They Shall Have Music

as Mrs. Miller

1939

Lucky Night

as Mrs. Briggs

1938

There Goes My Heart

as Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited)

1938

Girls' School

as Miss Armstrong

1938

Too Hot to Handle

as Miss Wayne

1938

Under the Big Top

as Sara Post

1938

Little Tough Guy

as Mrs. Boylan

1938

Prison Farm

as Matron Brand

1938

Romance of the Limberlost

as Nora

1938

Three Comrades

as Old woman by phone (uncredited)

1938

Test Pilot

as Landlady

1938

King of the Newsboys

as Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)

1938

Penitentiary

as Miss Katie Mathews

1938

Boy of the Streets

as Mrs. Mary Brennan

1937

The Shadow

as Hannah Gillespie

1937

The Wrong Road

as Martha Foster

1937

The Man Who Cried Wolf

as Amelia Bradley

1937

Dead End

as Mrs. Martin

1937

Stella Dallas

as Mrs. Martin

1937

Love in a Bungalow

as Miss Emma Bisbee

1936

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

as Self

1934

Music in the Air

as Anna (Uncredited)

1934

Crime Without Passion

as Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)

1934

Art Trouble

as Woman Who Sits on Painting

1933

Close Relations

as Woman in Depot (uncredited)

1933

New Deal Rhythm

as Arizona Representative

1932

Hot Saturday

as Gossip in Window (uncredited)

1932

Broken Lullaby

as Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited)

1931

A House Divided

as Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited)

1929

Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties

as Statler Hotel Beauty