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Marjorie Main
Acting
22 Feb 1890
† 10 Apr 1975
Acton, Indiana, USA
Biography
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 abras...
Also Known As
Mary Tomlinson
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Marjorie Main's Movies
70%
Meet Me in St. Louis
28 Nov 1944
69%
Heaven Can Wait
05 Aug 1943
72%
The Women
01 Sept 1939
71%
Dead End
27 Aug 1937
71%
Another Thin Man
17 Nov 1939
67%
Friendly Persuasion
30 Oct 1956
69%
Stella Dallas
06 Aug 1937
61%
Test Pilot
16 Apr 1938
68%
A Woman's Face
09 May 1941
66%
The Shepherd of the Hills
18 Jul 1941
64%
Dark Command
15 Apr 1940
70%
The Long, Long Trailer
19 Feb 1954
67%
Summer Stock
31 Aug 1950
66%
The Harvey Girls
18 Jan 1946
59%
Undercurrent
11 Nov 1946
70%
The Egg and I
01 May 1947
74%
Broken Lullaby
24 Jan 1932
72%
Three Comrades
02 Jun 1938
68%
Murder, He Says
23 Jun 1945
59%
Crime Without Passion
30 Aug 1934
