Marjorie Main

Actor

Born: February 22, 1890
Died: April 10, 1975 (age 85)
From: Acton, Indiana, USA

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…

Filmography (90)

Summer Stock: Get Happy! (2006)
Esme (archive footage) (uncredited)
The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)
Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957)
Ma Kettle
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The Widow Hudspeth
The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
Ma Kettle
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)
Ma' Kettle
Ricochet Romance (1954)
Pansy Jones
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)
Ma Kettle
Rose Marie (1954)
Lady Jane Dunstock
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Mrs. Hittaway
Fast Company (1953)
Ma Parkson
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1952)
Ma Kettle
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
Ma Kettle
The Belle of New York (1952)
Mrs Phineas Hill
It's a Big Country (1951)
Mrs. Wrenley
The Law and the Lady (1951)
Julia Wortin
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
Ma Kettle
Mr. Imperium (1951)
Mrs. Cabot
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
Harriet O'Malley
Summer Stock (1950)
Esme
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
Ma Kettle
Big Jack (1949)
Flapjack Kate
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948)
Maribel Mathews
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
Widow Hawkins
The Egg and I (1947)
Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
The Show-Off (1946)
Mrs. Fisher
Undercurrent (1946)
Lucy
Bad Bascomb (1946)
Abbey Hanks
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Sonora Cassidy