Marjorie Main
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 22, 1890, Acton, Indiana, USA
- Died
- April 10, 1975
- Movies
- 90
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2006 | Summer Stock: Get Happy! | Esme (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1965 | The World of Abbott and Costello | Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap |
| 1957 | The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm | Ma Kettle |
| 1956 | Friendly Persuasion | The Widow Hudspeth |
| 1956 | The Kettles in the Ozarks | Ma Kettle |
| 1955 | Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki | Ma' Kettle |
| 1954 | Ricochet Romance | Pansy Jones |
| 1954 | Ma and Pa Kettle at Home | Ma Kettle |
| 1954 | Rose Marie | Lady Jane Dunstock |
| 1954 | The Long, Long Trailer | Mrs. Hittaway |
| 1953 | Fast Company | Ma Parkson |
| 1952 | Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation | Ma Kettle |
| 1952 | Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair | Ma Kettle |
| 1952 | The Belle of New York | Mrs Phineas Hill |
| 1951 | It's a Big Country | Mrs. Wrenley |
| 1951 | The Law and the Lady | Julia Wortin |
| 1951 | Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm | Ma Kettle |
| 1951 | Mr. Imperium | Mrs. Cabot |
| 1950 | Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone | Harriet O'Malley |
| 1950 | Summer Stock | Esmé |
| 1950 | Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town | Ma Kettle |
| 1949 | Big Jack | Flapjack Kate |
| 1949 | Ma and Pa Kettle | Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle |
| 1948 | Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' | Maribel Mathews |
| 1947 | The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap | Widow Hawkins |
| 1947 | The Egg and I | Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle |
| 1946 | The Show-Off | Mrs. Fisher |
| 1946 | Undercurrent | Lucy |
| 1946 | Bad Bascomb | Abbey Hanks |
| 1946 | The Harvey Girls | Sonora Cassidy |
| 1945 | Murder, He Says | Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson |
| 1944 | Gentle Annie | Annie Goss |
| 1944 | Meet Me in St. Louis | Katie |
| 1944 | Rationing | Iris Tuttle |
| 1943 | Johnny Come Lately | 'Gashouse' Mary |
| 1943 | Heaven Can Wait | Mrs. Strabel |
| 1942 | Tennessee Johnson | Mrs. Maude Fisher |
| 1942 | Tish | Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry |
| 1942 | Jackass Mail | Clementine 'Tina' Tucker |
| 1942 | The Affairs of Martha | Mrs. McKissick |
| 1942 | We Were Dancing | Judge Hawkes |
| 1942 | The Bugle Sounds | Susie 'Suz' |
| 1941 | Honky Tonk | Mrs. Varner |
| 1941 | The Shepherd of the Hills | Granny Becky |
| 1941 | A Woman's Face | Emma Kristiansdotter |
| 1941 | Barnacle Bill | Marge Cavendish |
| 1941 | The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mrs. Collins |
| 1941 | The Wild Man of Borneo | Irma, the Cook |
| 1940 | Wyoming | Mehitabel |
| 1940 | The Captain is a Lady | Sarah May Willett |
| 1940 | Susan and God | Mary Maloney |
| 1940 | Turnabout | Nora, the Cook |
| 1940 | Dark Command | Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams |
| 1940 | Women Without Names | Mrs. Lowery |
| 1940 | I Take This Woman | Gertie |
| 1939 | Two Thoroughbreds | Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey |
| 1939 | Another Thin Man | Mrs. Dolley |
| 1939 | The Women | Lucy |
| 1939 | Angels Wash Their Faces | Mrs. Arkelian |
| 1939 | They Shall Have Music | Mrs. Miller |
| 1939 | Lucky Night | Mrs. Briggs |
| 1938 | There Goes My Heart | Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Girls' School | Miss Armstrong |
| 1938 | Too Hot to Handle | Miss Wayne |
| 1938 | Under the Big Top | Sara Post |
| 1938 | Little Tough Guy | Mrs. Boylan |
| 1938 | Prison Farm | Matron Brand |
| 1938 | Romance of the Limberlost | Nora |
| 1938 | Three Comrades | Old woman by phone (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Test Pilot | Landlady |
| 1938 | King of the Newsboys | Mrs. Stephens (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Penitentiary | Miss Katie Mathews |
| 1938 | Boy of the Streets | Mrs. Mary Brennan |
| 1938 | City Girl | Mrs. Ward (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Shadow | Hannah Gillespie |
| 1937 | The Wrong Road | Martha Foster |
| 1937 | The Man Who Cried Wolf | Amelia Bradley |
| 1937 | Dead End | Mrs. Martin |
| 1937 | Stella Dallas | Mrs. Martin |
| 1937 | Love in a Bungalow | Miss Emma Bisbee |
| 1936 | Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self |
| 1934 | Music in the Air | Anna (Uncredited) |
| 1934 | Crime Without Passion | Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Art Trouble | Woman Who Sits on Painting |
| 1933 | Close Relations | Woman in Depot (uncredited) |
| 1933 | New Deal Rhythm | Arizona Representative |
| 1932 | Hot Saturday | Gossip in Window (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Broken Lullaby | Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1931 | A House Divided | Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties | Statler Hotel Beauty |
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