Marjorie Main

Highest Rated: 100% That's Entertainment! III (1994)

Lowest Rated: 43% Johnny Come Lately (Johnny Vagabond) (1943)

Birthday: Feb 24, 1890

Birthplace: Acton, Indiana, USA

Scratchy-voiced American character actress who appeared in dozens of Hollywood vehicles following years on the Chautauqua and Orpheum circuits, Marjorie Main eventually worked with W.C. Fields on Broadway, where she appeared in several productions. Widowed in 1934, she entered films in 1937, repeating her Broadway stage role as the gangster's mother in Dead End (1937). Personally eccentric, Main had an almost pathological fear of germs. Best known among her close to 100 film appearances, most for MGM, are Stella Dallas (1937), Test Pilot (1938), Too Hot to Handle (1938), The Women (1939), Another Thin Man (1939), I Take This Woman (1940), Susan and God (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Murder, He Says (1945), The Harvey Girls (1946), Summer Stock (1950), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), Rose Marie (1954), and Friendly Persuasion (1956). Starting with their appearances in The Egg and I (1947), which starred Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, Main and Percy Kilbride became starring performers as Ma and Pa Kettle in a series of rural comedies.

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RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
100%	That's Entertainment! III	Actor	—	1994
No Score Yet	The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm	Ma Kettle	—	1957
88%	Friendly Persuasion	Widow Hudspeth	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Kettles in the Ozarks	Ma Kettle	—	1956
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki	Ma Kettle	—	1955
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle at Home	Ma Kettle	—	1954
No Score Yet	Rose Marie	Lady Jane Dunstock	—	1954
50%	The Long, Long Trailer	Mrs. Hittaway	—	1954
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation	Ma Kettle	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Belle of New York	Mrs. Phineas Hill	—	1952
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair	Ma Kettle	—	1952
No Score Yet	It's a Big Country	Mrs. Wrenley	—	1951
92%	Royal Wedding	Actor	—	1951
No Score Yet	Mr. Imperium	Mrs. Cabot	—	1951
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm	Ma Kettle	—	1951
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town	Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle	—	1950
100%	Summer Stock	Esme	—	1950
No Score Yet	Big Jack	Flapjack Kate	—	1949
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle	Ma Kettle	—	1949
No Score Yet	Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle	Actor	—	1949
No Score Yet	Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'	Maribel Mathews	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap	Widow Hawkins	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Egg and I	Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle	—	1947
No Score Yet	Undercurrent	Lucy	—	1946
No Score Yet	Bad Bascomb	Abbey Hanks	—	1946
100%	The Harvey Girls	Sonora Cassidy	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Show-Off	Mrs. Fisher	—	1946
No Score Yet	Gentle Annie	Annie Goss	—	1945
No Score Yet	Murder, He Says	Mamie Johnson	—	1945
100%	Meet Me In St. Louis	Katie	—	1944
43%	Johnny Come Lately (Johnny Vagabond)	'Gashouse' Mary	—	1943
85%	Heaven Can Wait	Mrs. Strabel	—	1943
No Score Yet	Tennessee Johnson	Mrs. Fisher	—	1942
No Score Yet	Tish	Actor	—	1942
No Score Yet	We Were Dancing	Judge Sidney Hawkes	—	1942
No Score Yet	The Shepherd of the Hills	Granny Becky	—	1941
100%	A Woman's Face	Emma	—	1941
No Score Yet	Honky Tonk	Rev. Mrs. Varner	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Captain is a Lady	Sarah May Willett	—	1940
No Score Yet	Susan and God	Mary	—	1940
No Score Yet	Turnabout	Nora	—	1940
100%	The Dark Command	Mrs. Cantrell	—	1940
No Score Yet	I Take This Woman	Gertie	—	1940
85%	Another Thin Man	Mrs. Dolley	—	1939
No Score Yet	They Shall Have Music	Jane Miller	—	1939
No Score Yet	Lucky Night	Mrs. Briggs	—	1939
94%	The Women	Lucy	—	1939
No Score Yet	There Goes My Heart	Irate Customer	—	1938
No Score Yet	Little Tough Guy	Mrs. Boylan	—	1938
100%	Three Comrades	Old Woman	—	1938
No Score Yet	King of the Newsboys	Mrs. Stephens	—	1938
75%	Test Pilot	Landlady	—	1938
No Score Yet	Too Hot to Handle	Miss Wayne	—	1938
No Score Yet	Under the Big Top	Sara Post	—	1938
No Score Yet	Penitentiary	Katie Mathews	—	1938
No Score Yet	Boy of the Streets	Mrs. Mary Brennan	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Wrong Road	Martha Foster	—	1937
91%	Dead End	Mrs. Martin	—	1937
89%	Stella Dallas	Mrs. Martin	—	1937
56%	Naughty Marietta	Casquette Girl	—	1935
No Score Yet	Music in the Air	Anna the Maid	—	1934
100%	Crime Without Passion	Woman	—	1934
No Score Yet	Take a Chance	Woman	—	1933
80%	Roman Scandals	Actor	—	1933
No Score Yet	Hot Saturday	Gossip	—	1932
No Score Yet	A House Divided	Woman	—	1931

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