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Marjorie Main

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US actress (1890-1975)

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Mary Tomlinson, professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an American character actress and singer of the Classical Hollywood period, notable as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s and 1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies.

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Filmography 40

Meet Me in St. Louis1944 · ★ 7.0
Heaven Can Wait1943 · ★ 6.9
The Women1939 · ★ 7.2
Dead End1937 · ★ 7.1
Friendly Persuasion1956 · ★ 6.7
Another Thin Man1939 · ★ 7.1
Test Pilot1938 · ★ 6.6
Stella Dallas1937 · ★ 6.9
A Woman's Face1941 · ★ 6.8
Undercurrent1946 · ★ 5.9
Summer Stock1950 · ★ 6.7
The Shepherd of the Hills1941 · ★ 6.6
The Harvey Girls1946 · ★ 6.6
Dark Command1940 · ★ 6.4
The Long, Long Trailer1954 · ★ 6.9
The Egg and I1947
Broken Lullaby1932
Three Comrades1938
Murder, He Says1945
Crime Without Passion1934
Ma and Pa Kettle1949
Too Hot to Handle1938
Hot Saturday1932
Johnny Come Lately1943
Turnabout1940
Honky Tonk1941
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap1947
Susan and God1940
The Belle of New York1952
There Goes My Heart1938
Little Tough Guy1938
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town1950
Mr. Imperium1951
Tennessee Johnson1942
They Shall Have Music1939
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm1951
Girls' School1938
Gentle Annie1944
I Take This Woman1940
Rose Marie1954

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Wagon Train1957
December Bride1954

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Mary Tomlinson, professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an American character actress and singer of the Classical Hollywood period, notable as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s and 1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Main started her career in vaudeville and theatre, and appeared in film classics, such as Dead End (1937), The Women (1939), Dark Command (1940), The Shepherd of the Hills (1941), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and Friendly Persuasion (1956). Main, known for playing "raucous, rough, and cantankerous women" on-screen, was characterized as "soft-spoken, shy," and "dignified" off-screen.

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Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1890 to 1975 · aged 85
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