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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMarjorie 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 stage role in Dead End in the 1937 film version, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude-ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. At this time, she guest-starred on radio programs such as Columbia Presents Corwin and The Goldbergs.Main was signed to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract in 1940 and stayed with the studio until the mid-1950s. She made six films with Wallace Beery in the 1940s, including Barnacle Bill (1941), Jackass Mail (1942), and Bad Bascomb (1946). She played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, in The Harvey Girls (1946). The director George Sidney remarked in the commentary for the film that Miss Main was a great lady as well as a great actress who donated most of her paychecks over the years to the support of a school.Perhaps her most famous role is that of Ma Kettle, which she first played in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part and portrayed the character in nine more Ma and Pa Kettle films.By the early 1950s, she had appeared in several MGM musicals, including, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Belle of New York. She played Mrs. Wrenley in the studios all-star film Its a Big Country (1951). In 1954, Marjorie Main played her last roles for the studio Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer and Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie. In 1956, Mains performance as the widow Hudspeth in the hit film Friendly Persuasion was well-received, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.In 1958, Main appeared twice as rugged frontierswoman Cassie Tanner in the episodes The Cassie Tanner Story and The Sacramento Story on NBCs television series Wagon Train. In the first segment, she joins the wagon train, casts her romantic interest on Ward Bond as Major Adams, and helps the train locate needed horses despite a Paiute threat.
Lucy
Film 1939
Emma Kristiansdotter
Film 1941
Ma Kettle
Film 1952
Mrs Phineas Hill
Film 1952
Esme
Film 1950
Lucy
Film 1946
Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
Film 1949
Ma' Kettle
Film 1955
Mrs. Maude Fisher
Film 1942
Ma Kettle
Film 1951
Ma Kettle
Film 1956
Susie 'Suz'
Film 1942
Clementine 'Tina' Tucker
Film 1942
Ma Kettle
Film 1957
Maribel Mathews
Film 1948
Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson
Film 1945
Harriet O'Malley
Film 1950
Irma, the Cook
Film 1941
Arizona Representative
Film 1933
Hannah Gillespie
Film 1937
Marge Cavendish
Film 1941
Lady Jane Dunstock
Film 1954
Mrs. Briggs
Film 1939
Abbey Hanks
Film 1946
Judge Hawkes
Film 1942
Iris Tuttle
Film 1944
Martha Foster
Film 1937
Julia Wortin
Film 1951
Mrs. McKissick
Film 1942
Mrs. Mary Brennan
Film 1938
Sara Post
Film 1938
Amelia Bradley
Film 1937
Mrs. Lowery
Film 1940
Miss Armstrong
Film 1938
Miss Wayne
Film 1938
Mrs. Boylan
Film 1938
Mrs. Fisher
Film 1946
Nora
Film 1938
Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry
Film 1942
Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey
Film 1939
Mary
Film 1940
Ma Kettle
Film 1954
Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited)
Film 1938
Annie Goss
Film 1944
Mehitabel
Film 1940
Matron Brand
Film 1938
Nora
Film 1940
Old woman by phone (uncredited)
Film 1938
Landlady
Film 1938
Mrs. Dolley (uncredited)
Film 1939
Mrs. Miller
Film 1939
Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)
Film 1938
Ma Parkson
Film 1953
Pansy Jones
Film 1954
Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited)
Film 1931
Mrs. Collins
Film 1941
'Gashouse' Mary
Film 1943
Anna (Uncredited)
Film 1934
Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams
Film 1940
Gossip in Window (uncredited)
Film 1932
Sarah May Willett
Film 1940
Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited)
Film 1932
Woman Who Sits on Painting
Film 1934
Statler Hotel Beauty
Film 1929
Woman in Depot (uncredited)
Film 1933
Self
Film 1936
Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Film 1934
Miss Katie Mathews
Film 1938
Tv 1954
Cassie Tanner
Tv 1957
