Marjorie Main

Mary Tomlinson

Туған күні:: 1890-02-22
Қайтыс болған күні:: 1975-04-10
Туған жері:: Acton, Indiana, USA

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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 abrasive, domineering, salty roles, for which her distinctive voice was well suited. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the 1937 film version, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude-ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. At this time, she guest-starred on radio programs such as Columbia Presents Corwin and The Goldbergs. Main was signed to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract in 1940 and stayed with the studio until the mid-1950s. She made six films with Wallace Beery in the 1940s, including Barnacle Bill (1941), Jackass Mail (1942), and Bad Bascomb (1946). She played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, in The Harvey Girls (1946). The director George Sidney remarked in the commentary for the film that Miss Main was a "great lady" as well as a great actress who donated most of her paychecks over the years to the support of a school. Perhaps her most famous role is that of Ma Kettle, which she first played in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part and portrayed the character in nine more Ma and Pa Kettle films. By the early 1950s, she had appeared in several MGM musicals, including, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Belle of New York. She played Mrs. Wrenley in the studio's all-star film It's a Big Country (1951). In 1954, Marjorie Main played her last roles for the studio: Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer and Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie. In 1956, Main's performance as the widow Hudspeth in the hit film Friendly Persuasion was well-received, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1958, Main appeared twice as rugged frontierswoman Cassie Tanner in the episodes "The Cassie Tanner Story" and "The Sacramento Story" on NBC's television series Wagon Train. In the first segment, she joins the wagon train, casts her romantic interest on Ward Bond as Major Adams, and helps the train locate needed horses despite a Paiute threat.

Фильмографиясы

Summer Stock: Get Happy!

2006

Esme (archive footage) (uncredited)

The World of Abbott and Costello

1965

TMDb 6.8 / 10

Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap

The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm

1957

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Ma Kettle

Дружеское увещевание

1956

TMDb 6.7 / 10

The Widow Hudspeth

The Kettles in the Ozarks

1956

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Ma Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

1955

TMDb 6.8 / 10

Ma' Kettle

Ricochet Romance

1954

TMDb 8.0 / 10

Pansy Jones

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

1954

TMDb 6.6 / 10

Ma Kettle

Rose Marie

1954

TMDb 4.5 / 10

Lady Jane Dunstock

Длинный, длинный трейлер

1954

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Mrs. Hittaway

Fast Company

1953

TMDb 7.5 / 10

Ma Parkson

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

1952

TMDb 7.1 / 10

Ma Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

1952

TMDb 6.6 / 10

Ma Kettle

Красавица Нью-Йорка

1952

TMDb 5.7 / 10

Mrs Phineas Hill

Эта большая страна

1951

TMDb 5.9 / 10

Mrs. Wrenley

The Law and the Lady

1951

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Julia Wortin

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

1951

TMDb 6.7 / 10

Ma Kettle

Mr. Imperium

1951

TMDb 5.1 / 10

Mrs. Cabot

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

1950

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Harriet O'Malley

Летние гастроли

1950

TMDb 6.7 / 10

Esmé

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

1950

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Ma Kettle

Большой Джек

1949

TMDb 7.3 / 10

Flapjack Kate

Ma and Pa Kettle

1949

TMDb 7.2 / 10

Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle

Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'

1948

TMDb 7.3 / 10

Maribel Mathews

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

1947

TMDb 6.2 / 10

Widow Hawkins

Неудачник и я

1947

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle

The Show-Off

1946

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Mrs. Fisher

Undercurrent

1946

TMDb 5.9 / 10

Lucy

Bad Bascomb

1946

TMDb 7.2 / 10

Abbey Hanks

Девушки Харви

1946

TMDb 6.6 / 10

Sonora Cassidy

Murder, He Says

1945

TMDb 6.8 / 10

Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson

Gentle Annie

1944

TMDb 5.7 / 10

Annie Goss

Встреть меня в Сент-Луисе

1944

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Katie

Rationing

1944

TMDb 4.0 / 10

Iris Tuttle

Джонни приходит поздно

1943

TMDb 7.0 / 10

'Gashouse' Mary

Небеса могут подождать

1943

TMDb 6.9 / 10

Mrs. Strabel

Tennessee Johnson

1942

TMDb 6.6 / 10

Mrs. Maude Fisher

Tish

1942

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry

Jackass Mail

1942

TMDb 7.5 / 10

Clementine 'Tina' Tucker

The Affairs of Martha

1942

TMDb 6.6 / 10

Mrs. McKissick

We Were Dancing

1942

TMDb 4.3 / 10

Judge Hawkes

The Bugle Sounds

1942

TMDb 6.8 / 10

Susie 'Suz'

Honky Tonk

1941

TMDb 6.3 / 10

Mrs. Varner

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941

TMDb 6.6 / 10

Granny Becky

Лицо женщины

1941

TMDb 6.8 / 10

Emma Kristiansdotter

Barnacle Bill

1941

TMDb 7.8 / 10

Marge Cavendish

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1941

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Mrs. Collins

The Wild Man of Borneo

1941

TMDb 6.7 / 10

Irma, the Cook

Wyoming

1940

TMDb 6.7 / 10

Mehitabel

The Captain is a Lady

1940

TMDb 7.5 / 10

Sarah May Willett

Сьюзен и бог

1940

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Mary Maloney

Turnabout

1940

TMDb 6.0 / 10

Nora, the Cook

Зов крови

1940

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams

Women Without Names

1940

TMDb 4.7 / 10

Mrs. Lowery

I Take This Woman

1940

TMDb 5.8 / 10

Gertie

Two Thoroughbreds

1939

TMDb 5.0 / 10

Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey

Другой тонкий человек

1939

TMDb 7.1 / 10

Mrs. Dolley

Женщины

1939

TMDb 7.2 / 10

Lucy

Angels Wash Their Faces

1939

TMDb 6.7 / 10

Mrs. Arkelian

They Shall Have Music

1939

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Mrs. Miller

Lucky Night

1939

TMDb 6.8 / 10

Mrs. Briggs

There Goes My Heart

1938

TMDb 7.3 / 10

Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited)

Girls' School

1938

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Miss Armstrong

Too Hot to Handle

1938

TMDb 6.1 / 10

Miss Wayne

Under the Big Top

1938

TMDb 6.7 / 10

Sara Post

Little Tough Guy

1938

TMDb 5.7 / 10

Mrs. Boylan

Prison Farm

1938

TMDb 6.8 / 10

Matron Brand

Romance of the Limberlost

1938

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Nora

Три товарища

1938

TMDb 7.2 / 10

Old woman by phone (uncredited)

Летчик-испытатель

1938

TMDb 6.1 / 10

Landlady

King of the Newsboys

1938

TMDb 4.8 / 10

Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)

Penitentiary

1938

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Miss Katie Mathews

Boy of the Streets

1938

TMDb 6.0 / 10

Mrs. Mary Brennan

City Girl

1938

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Mrs. Ward (uncredited)

The Shadow

1937

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Hannah Gillespie

The Wrong Road

1937

TMDb 4.8 / 10

Martha Foster

The Man Who Cried Wolf

1937

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Amelia Bradley

Тупик

1937

TMDb 7.1 / 10

Mrs. Martin

Стелла Даллас

1937

TMDb 6.9 / 10

Mrs. Martin

Love in a Bungalow

1937

TMDb 10.0 / 10

Miss Emma Bisbee

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

1936

TMDb 6.0 / 10

Self

Music in the Air

1934

TMDb 5.6 / 10

Anna (Uncredited)

Crime Without Passion

1934

TMDb 5.9 / 10

Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)

Art Trouble

1934

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Woman Who Sits on Painting

Близкие отношения

1933

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Woman in Depot (uncredited)

New Deal Rhythm

1933

TMDb 6.7 / 10

Arizona Representative

Hot Saturday

1932

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Gossip in Window (uncredited)

Broken Lullaby

1932

TMDb 7.4 / 10

Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited)

A House Divided

1931

TMDb 5.6 / 10

Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited)

Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties

1929

TMDb 5.0 / 10

Statler Hotel Beauty