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Marjorie Main

Marjorie Main
  • Name: Marjorie Main
  • Birthday: 1890-02-22
  • Also known as: Mary Tomlinson
  • Place of birth: Acton, Indiana, USA
  • Popularity: 10.688
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 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... Read More

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Title Release date
The World of Abbott and Costello   as  Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap 1965-04-01
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm   as  Ma Kettle 1957-05-10
Friendly Persuasion   as  The Widow Hudspeth 1956-11-25
The Kettles in the Ozarks   as  Ma Kettle 1956-04-01
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki   as  Ma' Kettle 1955-04-01
Ricochet Romance   as  Pansy Jones 1954-11-01
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home   as  Ma Kettle 1954-03-10
Rose Marie   as  Lady Jane Dunstock 1954-03-03
The Long, Long Trailer   as  Mrs. Hittaway 1954-02-19
Fast Company   as  Ma Parkson 1953-05-21
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation   as  Ma Kettle 1952-10-27
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair   as  Ma Kettle 1952-07-11
The Belle of New York   as  Mrs Phineas Hill 1952-02-22
It's a Big Country   as  Mrs. Wrenley 1951-11-20
The Law and the Lady   as  Julia Wortin 1951-07-20
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm   as  Ma Kettle 1951-05-10
Mr. Imperium   as  Mrs. Cabot 1951-03-02
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone   as  Harriet O'Malley 1950-12-08
Summer Stock   as  Esme 1950-08-31
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town   as  Ma Kettle 1950-04-01
Big Jack   as  Flapjack Kate 1949-04-12
Ma and Pa Kettle   as  Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle 1949-04-01
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'   as  Maribel Mathews 1948-06-01
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap   as  Widow Hawkins 1947-10-08
The Egg and I   as  Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle 1947-05-01
The Show-Off   as  Mrs. Fisher 1946-12-01
Undercurrent   as  Lucy 1946-11-11
Bad Bascomb   as  Abbey Hanks 1946-05-26
The Harvey Girls   as  Sonora Cassidy 1946-01-18
Murder, He Says   as  Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson 1945-06-23
Gentle Annie   as  Annie Goss 1944-12-05
Meet Me in St. Louis   as  Katie 1944-11-28
Rationing   as  Iris Tuttle 1944-03-24
Johnny Come Lately   as  'Gashouse' Mary 1943-09-03
Heaven Can Wait   as  Mrs. Strabel 1943-08-05
Tennessee Johnson   as  Mrs. Maude Fisher 1942-12-01
Tish   as  Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry 1942-09-17
Jackass Mail   as  Clementine 'Tina' Tucker 1942-07-01
The Affairs of Martha   as  Mrs. McKissick 1942-06-21
We Were Dancing   as  Judge Hawkes 1942-04-30
The Bugle Sounds   as  Susie 'Suz' 1942-01-30
Honky Tonk   as  Mrs. Varner 1941-10-01
The Shepherd of the Hills   as  Granny Becky 1941-07-18
A Woman's Face   as  Emma Kristiansdotter 1941-05-09
Barnacle Bill   as  Marge Cavendish 1941-04-07
The Trial of Mary Dugan   as  Mrs. Collins 1941-02-14
The Wild Man of Borneo   as  Irma, the Cook 1941-01-24
Wyoming   as  Mehitabel 1940-09-13
The Captain Is a Lady   as  Sarah May Willett 1940-06-21
Susan and God   as  Mary 1940-06-07
Turnabout   as  Nora 1940-05-17
Dark Command   as  Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams 1940-04-15
Women Without Names   as  Mrs. Lowery 1940-03-14
I Take This Woman   as  Gertie 1940-02-02
Two Thoroughbreds   as  Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey 1939-12-08
Another Thin Man   as  Mrs. Dolley (uncredited) 1939-11-17
The Women   as  Lucy 1939-09-01
Angels Wash Their Faces   as  Mrs. Arkelian 1939-08-26
They Shall Have Music   as  Mrs. Miller 1939-08-18
Lucky Night   as  Mrs. Briggs 1939-05-05
There Goes My Heart   as  Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited) 1938-10-14
Girls' School   as  Miss Armstrong 1938-09-30
Too Hot to Handle   as  Miss Wayne 1938-09-16
Under the Big Top   as  Sara Post 1938-08-31
Little Tough Guy   as  Mrs. Boylan 1938-07-22
Prison Farm   as  Matron Brand 1938-06-17
Romance of the Limberlost   as  Nora 1938-06-16
Three Comrades   as  Old woman by phone (uncredited) 1938-06-02
Test Pilot   as  Landlady 1938-04-16
King of the Newsboys   as  Mrs. Stephens (uncredited) 1938-03-18
Penitentiary   as  Miss Katie Mathews 1938-02-05
Boy of the Streets   as  Mrs. Mary Brennan 1938-01-08
The Shadow   as  Hannah Gillespie 1937-12-22
The Wrong Road   as  Martha Foster 1937-10-11
The Man Who Cried Wolf   as  Amelia Bradley 1937-08-29
Dead End   as  Mrs. Martin 1937-08-27
Stella Dallas   as  Mrs. Martin 1937-08-06
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)   as  Self 1936-09-11
Music in the Air   as  Anna (Uncredited) 1934-12-13
Crime Without Passion   as  Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited) 1934-08-30
Art Trouble   as  Woman Who Sits on Painting 1934-06-23
Close Relations   as  Woman in Depot (uncredited) 1933-09-30
New Deal Rhythm   as  Arizona Representative 1933-04-13
Hot Saturday   as  Gossip in Window (uncredited) 1932-10-28
Broken Lullaby   as  Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited) 1932-01-19
A House Divided   as  Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited) 1931-12-05
Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties   as  Statler Hotel Beauty 1929-07-21