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Birthday
February 22, 1890
Day of Death
1975-04-10
(85 years old)
Place of Birth
Acton, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
Mary Tomlinson
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.
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There Goes My Heart
as Fireless Cooker Customer (uncredited)
Girls' School
as Miss Armstrong
Too Hot to Handle
as Miss Wayne
Under the Big Top
as Sara Post
Little Tough Guy
as Mrs. Boylan
Prison Farm
as Matron Brand
Romance of the Limberlost
as Nora
Three Comrades
as Old woman by phone (uncredited)
Test Pilot
as Landlady
King of the Newsboys
as Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)
Penitentiary
as Miss Katie Mathews
Boy of the Streets
as Mrs. Mary Brennan
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