Marjorie Main
Birthday
1890/02/22
Day of death
1975/04/10 (85 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Acton, Indiana, USA
Also know as
Mary Tomlinson
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...Read more
Acting
(1944) Meet Me in St. Louis
as Katie
(1951) Mr. Imperium
as Mrs. Cabot
(1939) The Women
as Lucy
(1954) The Long, Long Trailer
as Mrs. Hittaway
(1947) The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
as Widow Hawkins
(1941) A Woman's Face
as Emma Kristiansdotter
(1937) Dead End
as Mrs. Martin
(1952) Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Ma Kettle
(1947) The Egg and I
as Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
(1956) Friendly Persuasion
as The Widow Hudspeth
(1941) The Shepherd of the Hills
as Granny Becky
(1952) The Belle of New York
as Mrs Phineas Hill
(1950) Summer Stock
as Esme
(1937) Stella Dallas
as Mrs. Martin
(1946) Undercurrent
as Lucy
(1949) Ma and Pa Kettle
as Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
(1943) Heaven Can Wait
as Mrs. Strabel
(1955) Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Ma' Kettle
(1952) Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
as Ma Kettle
(1942) Tennessee Johnson
as Mrs. Maude Fisher
(1950) Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
as Ma Kettle
(1951) Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
as Ma Kettle
(1951) It's a Big Country
as Mrs. Wrenley
(1956) The Kettles in the Ozarks
as Ma Kettle
(1941) Honky Tonk
as Mrs. Varner
(1942) The Bugle Sounds
as Susie 'Suz'
(1942) Jackass Mail
as Clementine 'Tina' Tucker
(1939) Angels Wash Their Faces
as Mrs. Arkelian
(1957) The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
as Ma Kettle
(1948) Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
as Maribel Mathews
(1945) Murder, He Says
as Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson
(1950) Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
as Harriet O'Malley
(1941) The Wild Man of Borneo
as Irma, the Cook
(1933) New Deal Rhythm
as Arizona Representative
(1937) The Shadow
as Hannah Gillespie
(1941) Barnacle Bill
as Marge Cavendish
(1940) I Take This Woman
as Gertie
(1954) Rose Marie
as Lady Jane Dunstock
(1939) Lucky Night
as Mrs. Briggs
(1949) Big Jack
as Flapjack Kate
(1946) Bad Bascomb
as Abbey Hanks
(1942) We Were Dancing
as Judge Hawkes
(1944) Rationing
as Iris Tuttle
(1937) The Wrong Road
as Martha Foster
(1951) The Law and the Lady
as Julia Wortin
(1942) The Affairs of Martha
as Mrs. McKissick
(1938) Boy of the Streets
as Mrs. Mary Brennan
(1938) Under the Big Top
as Sara Post
(1937) The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Amelia Bradley
(1940) Women Without Names
as Mrs. Lowery
(1938) Girls' School
as Miss Armstrong
(1938) Too Hot to Handle
as Miss Wayne
(1946) The Show-Off
as Mrs. Fisher
(1938) Little Tough Guy
as Mrs. Boylan
(1938) Romance of the Limberlost
as Nora
(1942) Tish
as Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry
(1939) Two Thoroughbreds
as Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey
(1940) Susan and God
as Mary
(1954) Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
as Ma Kettle
(1938) There Goes My Heart
as Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited)
(1944) Gentle Annie
as Annie Goss
(1940) Wyoming
as Mehitabel
(1946) The Harvey Girls
as Sonora Cassidy
(1938) Prison Farm
as Matron Brand
(1940) Turnabout
as Nora, the Cook
(1938) Three Comrades
as Old woman by phone (uncredited)
(1938) Test Pilot
as Landlady
(1939) Another Thin Man
as Mrs. Dolley (uncredited)
(1939) They Shall Have Music
as Mrs. Miller
(1938) King of the Newsboys
as Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)
(1953) Fast Company
as Ma Parkson
(1954) Ricochet Romance
as Pansy Jones
(1931) A House Divided
as Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited)
(1941) The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mrs. Collins
(1943) Johnny Come Lately
as 'Gashouse' Mary
(1934) Music in the Air
as Anna (Uncredited)
(1940) Dark Command
as Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams
(1932) Hot Saturday
as Gossip in Window (uncredited)
(1940) The Captain Is a Lady
as Sarah May Willett
(1932) Broken Lullaby
as Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited)
(1934) Art Trouble
as Woman Who Sits on Painting
(1929) Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties
as Statler Hotel Beauty
(1933) Close Relations
as Woman in Depot (uncredited)
(1936) Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
(1934) Crime Without Passion
as Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
(1965) The World of Abbott and Costello
as Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap
(1938) Penitentiary
as Miss Katie Mathews
(1954) December Bride
as ---
(1957) Wagon Train
as Cassie Tanner