Marjorie Main
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
Film • 2006
jako Esme (archive footage) (uncredited)
The World of Abbott and Costello
Film • 1965
jako Widow Hawkins in The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap
Wagon Train
Serial • 1957
jako Cassie Tanner
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
Film • 1957
jako Ma Kettle
Przyjacielska perswazja
Film • 1956
jako The Widow Hudspeth
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Film • 1956
jako Ma Kettle
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Film • 1955
jako Ma' Kettle
Ricochet Romance
Film • 1954
jako Pansy Jones
December Bride
Serial • 1954
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Film • 1954
jako Ma Kettle
Rose Marie
Film • 1954
jako Lady Jane Dunstock
The Long, Long Trailer
Film • 1954
jako Mrs. Hittaway
Fast Company
Film • 1953
jako Ma Parkson
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Film • 1952
jako Ma Kettle
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Film • 1952
jako Ma Kettle
The Belle of New York
Film • 1952
jako Mrs Phineas Hill
It's a Big Country
Film • 1951
jako Mrs. Wrenley
The Law and the Lady
Film • 1951
jako Julia Wortin
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Film • 1951
jako Ma Kettle
Mr. Imperium
Film • 1951
jako Mrs. Cabot
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Film • 1950
jako Harriet O'Malley
Summer Stock
Film • 1950
jako Esmé
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Film • 1950
jako Ma Kettle
Big Jack
Film • 1949
jako Flapjack Kate
Ma and Pa Kettle
Film • 1949
jako Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Film • 1948
jako Maribel Mathews
Abbott i Costello Wdowa z Wagon Gap
Film • 1947
jako Widow Hawkins
The Egg and I
Film • 1947
jako Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle
The Show-Off
Film • 1946
jako Mrs. Fisher
W kręgu zła
Film • 1946
jako Lucy
Bad Bascomb
Film • 1946
jako Abbey Hanks
The Harvey Girls
Film • 1946
jako Sonora Cassidy
Murder, He Says
Film • 1945
jako Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson
Gentle Annie
Film • 1944
jako Annie Goss
Spotkajmy się w St. Louis
Film • 1944
jako Katie
Rationing
Film • 1944
jako Iris Tuttle
Johnny Come Lately
Film • 1943
jako 'Gashouse' Mary
Niebiosa mogą zaczekać
Film • 1943
jako Mrs. Strabel
Tennessee Johnson
Film • 1942
jako Mrs. Maude Fisher
Tish
Film • 1942
jako Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry
Jackass Mail
Film • 1942
jako Clementine 'Tina' Tucker
The Affairs of Martha
Film • 1942
jako Mrs. McKissick
We Were Dancing
Film • 1942
jako Judge Hawkes
The Bugle Sounds
Film • 1942
jako Susie 'Suz'
Honky Tonk
Film • 1941
jako Mrs. Varner
Pasterz ze wzgórz
Film • 1941
jako Granny Becky
A Woman's Face
Film • 1941
jako Emma Kristiansdotter
Barnacle Bill
Film • 1941
jako Marge Cavendish
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Film • 1941
jako Mrs. Collins
The Wild Man of Borneo
Film • 1941
jako Irma, the Cook
Wyoming
Film • 1940
jako Mehitabel
The Captain is a Lady
Film • 1940
jako Sarah May Willett
Susan and God
Film • 1940
jako Mary Maloney
Turnabout
Film • 1940
jako Nora, the Cook
Dark Command
Film • 1940
jako Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams
Women Without Names
Film • 1940
jako Mrs. Lowery
I Take This Woman
Film • 1940
jako Gertie
Two Thoroughbreds
Film • 1939
jako Hildegarde 'Hildy' Carey
Sprawa dla detektywa
Film • 1939
jako Mrs. Dolley
Kobiety
Film • 1939
jako Lucy
Angels Wash Their Faces
Film • 1939
jako Mrs. Arkelian
They Shall Have Music
Film • 1939
jako Mrs. Miller
Lucky Night
Film • 1939
jako Mrs. Briggs
There Goes My Heart
Film • 1938
jako Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited)
Girls' School
Film • 1938
jako Miss Armstrong
Too Hot to Handle
Film • 1938
jako Miss Wayne
Under the Big Top
Film • 1938
jako Sara Post
Little Tough Guy
Film • 1938
jako Mrs. Boylan
Prison Farm
Film • 1938
jako Matron Brand
Romance of the Limberlost
Film • 1938
jako Nora
Three Comrades
Film • 1938
jako Old woman by phone (uncredited)
Test Pilot
Film • 1938
jako Landlady
King of the Newsboys
Film • 1938
jako Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)
Penitentiary
Film • 1938
jako Miss Katie Mathews
Boy of the Streets
Film • 1938
jako Mrs. Mary Brennan
City Girl
Film • 1938
jako Mrs. Ward (uncredited)
The Shadow
Film • 1937
jako Hannah Gillespie
The Wrong Road
Film • 1937
jako Martha Foster
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Film • 1937
jako Amelia Bradley
Ślepy zaułek
Film • 1937
jako Mrs. Martin
Stella Dallas
Film • 1937
jako Mrs. Martin
Love in a Bungalow
Film • 1937
jako Miss Emma Bisbee
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Film • 1936
jako Self
Music in the Air
Film • 1934
jako Anna (Uncredited)
Crime Without Passion
Film • 1934
jako Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Art Trouble
Film • 1934
jako Woman Who Sits on Painting
Close Relations
Film • 1933
jako Woman in Depot (uncredited)
New Deal Rhythm
Film • 1933
jako Arizona Representative
Hot Saturday
Film • 1932
jako Gossip in Window (uncredited)
Broken Lullaby
Film • 1932
jako Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited)
A House Divided
Film • 1931
jako Townswoman at Wedding (uncredited)
Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties
Film • 1929
jako Statler Hotel Beauty