Marjorie Main
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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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| Full name at birth | Mary Tomlinson
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| Date of birth | 24 February 1890
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| Place of birth | Acton, Indiana, USA
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| Date of death | 10 April 1975
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| Age | 85 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
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- Her husband Stanley died in 1935, but until her death, she often had "conversations" with her late husband, occasionally interrupting a scene in a movie. She would then let the director know it was okay to continue the scene, which she did as if nothing happened.
- There were a total of 10 movies in which Main played the character of Ma Kettle. She also co-starred with Kettle co-star Percy Kilbride in Feudin`, Fussin` and A-Fightin` (1948) though it isn`t a Kettle film.
- Long-time companion of actress Spring Byington.
- Had been known to wear white gloves and a surgical mask for fear of germ contamination.
- Spouse: Stanley LeFevre Krebs (2 December 1921 - 1935) (his death)
Marjorie Main is known for her role in the film Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) as Katie (Maid).
She is also known for her role in the film Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) as Ma Kettle.
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