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