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.
- Meet Me in St. Louis1944
- The Women1939
- Mr. Imperium1951
- The Long, Long Trailer1954
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap1947
- A Woman's Face1941
- Dead End1937
- Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair1952
- The Egg and I1947
- Friendly Persuasion1956
- The Shepherd of the Hills1941
- The Belle of New York1952
- Summer Stock1950
- Stella Dallas1937
- Undercurrent1946
- Ma and Pa Kettle1949
- Heaven Can Wait1943
- Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki1955
- Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation1953
- Tennessee Johnson1942
- Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town1950
- Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm1951
- It's a Big Country1951
- The Kettles in the Ozarks1956
- Honky Tonk1941
- Jackass Mail1942
- Angels Wash Their Faces1939
- The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm1957
- Murder, He Says1945
- The Shadow1937
- I Take This Woman1940
- Barnacle Bill1941
- Rose Marie1954
- Lucky Night1939
- Big Jack1949
- Bad Bascomb1946
- We Were Dancing1942
- Rationing1944
- The Law and the Lady1951
- The Affairs of Martha1942
- Boy of the Streets1938
- Under the Big Top1938
- The Man Who Cried Wolf1937
- Women Without Names1940
- Too Hot to Handle1938
- Girls' School1938
- The Show-Off1946
- Little Tough Guy1938
- Tish1942
- Two Thoroughbreds1939
- Ma and Pa Kettle at Home1954
- Susan and God1940
- There Goes My Heart1938
- Gentle Annie1944
- Wyoming1940
- The Harvey Girls1946
- Prison Farm1938
- The Bugle Sounds1942
- Turnabout1940
- Test Pilot1938
- They Shall Have Music1939
- Another Thin Man1939
- King of the Newsboys1938
- Fast Company1953
- A House Divided1931
- The Trial of Mary Dugan1941
- Johnny Come Lately1943
- Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'1948
- Music in the Air1934
- Dark Command1940
- The Captain Is a Lady1940
- Broken Lullaby1932
- Ricochet Romance1954
- Crime Without Passion1934
- The World of Abbott and Costello1965
- Penitentiary1938
- Three Comrades1938