Marjorie Main

Marjorie Main

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...

Known For

Heaven Can Wait

as Mrs. Strabel

The Women

as Lucy

Cast Credits

The World of Abbott and Costello

as Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap

Friendly Persuasion

as The Widow Hudspeth

Ricochet Romance

as Pansy Jones

Rose Marie

as Lady Jane Dunstock

The Long, Long Trailer

as Mrs. Hittaway

Fast Company

as Ma Parkson

The Belle of New York

as Mrs Phineas Hill

It's a Big Country

as Mrs. Wrenley

The Law and the Lady

as Julia Wortin

Mr. Imperium

as Mrs. Cabot

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

as Harriet O'Malley

Big Jack

as Flapjack Kate

Ma and Pa Kettle

as Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle

The Egg and I

as Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle

The Show-Off

as Mrs. Fisher

Bad Bascomb

as Abbey Hanks

The Harvey Girls

as Sonora Cassidy

Murder, He Says

as Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson