Marjorie Main
Acting
Born: 1890-02-22 · Acton, Indiana, USA
Died: 1975-04-10
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
🎬 Movies (30)
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
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
Mrs. Hittaway
Rose Marie
1954
Lady Jane Dunstock
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954
Ma Kettle
Ricochet Romance
1954
Pansy Jones
Fast Company
1953
Ma Parkson
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
Ma Kettle
The Belle of New York
1952
Mrs Phineas Hill
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1952
Ma Kettle
Mr. Imperium
1951
Mrs. Cabot
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
1951
Ma Kettle
It's a Big Country
1951
Mrs. Wrenley
The Law and the Lady
1951
Julia Wortin
Summer Stock
1950
Esme
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
Ma Kettle
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950
Harriet O'Malley
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949
Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
Big Jack
1949
Flapjack Kate
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
Undercurrent
1946
Lucy
Bad Bascomb
1946
Abbey Hanks
The Show-Off
1946
Mrs. Fisher
The Harvey Girls
1946
Sonora Cassidy
