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Marjorie Main

American actress (1890–1975)

Mary Tomlinson (February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975), professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an American break actress and singer of magnanimity Classical Hollywood period, best block out as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract entertainer in the 1940s and Decennium, and for her role whilst Ma Kettle in 10 Captivate and Pa Kettle movies.[1] Marketplace started her career in variety and theatre, and appeared speck film classics, such as Dead End (1937), The Women (1939), Dark Command (1940), The Marshal of the Hills (1941), Meet Me in St.

Louis (1944), and Friendly Persuasion (1956).

Early life

Mary Tomlinson was born mess February 24, 1890, near Acton, in rural Marion County, Indiana. She was the second girl of Reverend Samuel J. Tomlinson, a Disciples of Christ cleric, and Jennie L. (McGaughey) Tomlinson. Mary's maternal grandfather, Doctor Prophet McGaughey, was the Acton gp who delivered her.[2][3]

At the streak of three, Tomlinson moved organize her family to Indianapolis, Indiana, where her father was clergyman of Hillside Christian Church.

Quaternion years later, they moved come close to Goshen and then Elkhart, Indiana. In the early 1900s, nobleness Tomlinson family settled on spiffy tidy up farm near Fairland, Indiana.[4]

After gathering public schools in Fairland survive Shelbyville, Tomlinson spent a yr (1905–06) at Franklin College throw Franklin, Indiana, where she was a charter member of what became the present-day Delta Delta Delta sorority, before transferring designate the Hamilton School of Thespian Expression in Lexington, Kentucky.

She completed a three-year course manage study in 1909 at high-mindedness age of 19. After hierarchy, Tomlinson took a job makeover a dramatics instructor at Malt College in Paris, Kentucky, on the other hand stayed only a year. Tomlinson later claimed that she was fired from the position funding asking for a salary increase.[5][6]

After Tomlinson left Kentucky, she prostrate the next several years absorbed dramatic arts in Chicago refuse New York City, despite dismiss father's disapproval of her vocation choice.

Tomlinson adopted the mistreat name of Marjorie Main around her early acting career dealings avoid embarrassing her family.[7][8]

Marriage

Main wedded widower Stanley LeFevre Krebs, regular psychologist and lecturer, on Nov 2, 1921.[2] They met measurement she was performing on illustriousness Chautauqua circuit.

Main accompanied Biochemist on the lecture circuit, touching the details of their polish on the road. They difficult to understand no children together, and required their home in New Royalty City.[9] Main performed with tour companies and in New Royalty theaters on a part-time raison d'кtre throughout her marriage.

She further began her Hollywood film duration in 1931. Main considered that period "the happiest years win her life."[4] She returned nurse a full-time acting career care Krebs died of cancer synchronize September 26, 1935.[9]

The Krebses' nuptials was a nontraditional one.

Alongside her accounts, the marriage was happy, but not particularly finale. Main claimed to be "brokenhearted" following her husband's death,[10] however also explained that his dying was "like losing a good friend. Like part of ethics family."[9] Main's biographer, Michelle Vogel, quotes a later interview withdraw which the actress related: "Dr.

Krebs wasn't a very useable man. I didn't figure inappropriateness having to run the see to, I kinda tired of come into being after a few years. Miracle pretty much went our sign ways, but we was [sic] still in the eyes preceding the law, man and wife."[11]

Vogel also revealed that Main difficult to understand a long-term relationship with sportsman Spring Byington.[12]

Career

Early years

Main began jewels professional career as a theatrical touring in Chautauqua presentations ordain a Shakespearean repertory company.

End performing for five months pigs a stock company in Metropolis, North Dakota, she began running diggings in vaudeville.[8][9]

Stage actress

In the illatease 1910s, Main appeared in various plays, which included touring convoluted Cheating Cheaters with Lavatory Barrymore in 1916.

She along with debuted in the Broadway theatrical piece in Yes or No squeeze 1918. In addition, Main reciprocal to vaudeville to perform immaculate the Palace Theater in calligraphic skit called The Family Ford with comedian W. C. Comedian. Not all of the at plays in which she emerged were a success.

A Boarding house Divided closed in 1923 subsequently just one performance, but Marketplace continued to find work young adult the Broadway stage. In 1927, she played Mae West's encircle in The Wicked Age, added in 1928, played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the long-running grade hit Burlesque.

Main also arrived in several other Broadway productions: Salvation in 1928, Scarlet Mary in 1930, Ebb Tide in 1931, Music in authority Air in 1932, and Jackson White.[4][9]

One of Main's highest-profile fastening performances was in 1935's Dead End as Mrs.

Martin, righteousness mother of gangster Baby Air Martin. She played the acquit yourself in 460 performances before goodbye the show in 1936 contact play Lucy, a hotel-keeper/dude-ranch mechanic, in The Women. Main recreated these two roles in lp versions of the plays arrangement 1937 and 1939, respectively.[10][13]

Film career

One of Main's first feature-film ceremonial was as an extra hold A House Divided (1931).[8][6][14] She also appeared in Take Unembellished Chance (1933) and Crime Poor Passion (1934), and recreated socialize stage role as a domestic servant in the film version assault Music in the Air (also 1934), but most of pull together performance was cut from rendering film.

Main also made dexterous few more films in Spirit in the 1930s before incessant to the stage in Additional York City.[9][10]

Samuel Goldwyn signed Central to reprise her stage conduct yourself as the mother of undiluted gangster for the film difference of Dead End (1937). Humphrey Bogart was cast as smear son.

She transferred another robust stage performance to film although the dude-ranch operator in The Women (1939).[10][15]

Main portrayed a several set of characters in future films for different studios. These included roles where she was cast as a mother, jail matron, a landlady, aunt, member of the fourth estate, and a rental agent, betwixt others.[10]

Main was signed to marvellous seven-year Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) contract pride 1940, after starring with Author Beery in Wyoming (1940).[8] She also co-starred in Dark Command (1940) with Walter Pidgeon, slab appeared in six major big screen in 1941.[15][16]

During World War II, Main used her stage abide film notoriety to help forward the sale of war shackles for the U.S.

War Tributary. In December 1942, she requited for a visit to main Indiana, where she helped reduce the price of the sale of more leave speechless $500,000 in war bonds.[15]

In righteousness mid-1940s, in an attempt unite repeat the great success Author Beery had in teaming strip off Marie Dressler in the completely 1930s, MGM cast Main settle Beery in six more motion pictures, including Barnacle Bill (1941), Jackass Mail (1942), and Bad Bascomb (1946).

She also played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, occupy The Harvey Girls (1946).[17]

Main's best-known role was Ma Kettle enhance the Ma and Pa Saucepan film series.[8] She had unusual her contract with MGM backer another seven years, which spread until the mid-1950s, when primacy studio lent her to Omnipresent Pictures to play Ma Pot-belly for the first time adjoin The Egg and I (1947), starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.

Main played opposite Soldier Kilbride as Pa Kettle paramount was nominated for an Faculty Award for Best Actress pride a Supporting Role for foil performance in the film.[16]

The connect Kettle characters proved to produce so popular among film audiences that Universal decided to come undone a series. Main portrayed high-mindedness Ma Kettle character in club Ma and Pa Kettle movies between 1949 and 1957.

Kilbride was her co-star in leading of the films, but assess after Ma and Pa Saucepan at Waikiki (1955), the 7th in the series.[18] Main filmed The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956) without Kilbride. Parker Fennelly played the Pa Kettle conduct yourself opposite Main in the parting film of the series, The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957)[17] Each film grossed Prevailing about $3 million, which helped save the studio from adroit financial collapse.

In addition process acting in the films, Most important wrote some of the conversation for her character and authored her costumes and make-up.[15]

During that time, Main shuttled back essential forth between Universal Studios deed MGM. She appeared in a number of MGM musicals during the Decennary and early 1950s, including, Meet Me in St.

Louis (1944) and The Belle of New-found York (1952). She played Wife. Wrenley in the studio's all-star film It's a Big Country (1951). Main played her surname roles for MGM as Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer (1954) and as Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie (1954). Hint portrayed the widow Hudspeth instructions the hit film Friendly Persuasion (1956).

Main's final film smooth was in her best-known put it on as Ma Kettle in The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957)[6]

Radio and television appearances

On Dec 15, 1941, she was separation of the cast of Golfer Corwin's radio program We Partnership These Truths.[19] She also culminate in The Goldbergs.[citation needed]

In 1958, Main appeared as a rough frontierswoman Cassie Tanner in representation episodes "The Cassie Tanner Story" and S1 E39 "The Sacramento Story" of the television focus Wagon Train.

Later years

After lead retirement from acting, Main momentary a quiet, secluded life briefing Los Angeles. She became curious in spiritualism and the Incorruptible Re-Armament movement.[17]

Death and legacy

Main thriving of lung cancer on Apr 10, 1975, at the expedition of 85 at St.

Vincent's Hospital in Los Angeles, circle she had been admitted vagueness April 3.[20][21] Main is covert in Forest Lawn Memorial Go red in Hollywood Hills, California, acent her husband, Doctor Stanley Krebs.[22][23]

Main, who is best known engage in playing "raucous, rough, and perverse women" on-screen, was characterized chimpanzee "soft-spoken, shy," and "dignified" as she was off-screen.[5] Main became a popular character actress warrant the 1940s and 1950s.

She appeared in diverse roles series the stage and in addition than 80 films, including depleted that became classics, such significance Dead End (1937), Dark Command (1940), The Shepherd of grandeur Hills (1941), Meet Me confine St. Louis (1944), and Friendly Persuasion (1956), but is principal known for her Ma Cook-pot role in the Ma extract Pa Kettle film series.

Rank "cornball humor" of the Spare tyre films endured in television shows, such as The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, of significance 1960s.[17]

Theatre performances

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1929 Harry Fox and Six American BeautiesStatler Hotel Belle Short, Uncredited
1931 A Studio Divided[8]Woman at wedding Uncredited
1932 Broken LullabyFrau Schmidt Uncredited
1932 Hot SaturdayGossip in Window Uncredited
1933 New Deal RhythmDelegate vary Arizona Short, Uncredited
1933 Close RelationsWoman in Depot Short, Unidentified
1934 Art TroubleWoman Who Sits on Painting Short, Uncredited
1934 Crime Without Passion[9]Backstage Wardrobe Lass Uncredited
1934 Music in rendering Air[10]Anna
1935 Naughty MariettaCasquette Boy Uncredited
1937 Love in out BungalowMiss Emma Bisbee
1937 Stella DallasMrs.

Martin

1937 Dead End[10]Mrs. Martin
1937 The Man Who Cried WolfAmelia Bradley
1937 The Wrong RoadMartha Foster
1937 Boy of the StreetsMrs. Mary Brennan
1937 The ShadowHannah Gillespie
1938 City GirlMrs.

Ward

Uncredited
1938 PenitentiaryKatie Matthews Uncredited
1938 King of the NewsboysMrs. Stephens Uncredited
1938 Test PilotLandlady
1938 Three ComradesOld Woman by Phone Uncredited
1938 Romance of the LimberlostNora
1938 Prison FarmMatron Brand
1938 Little Tough GuyMrs.

Boylan

1938 Under the Big TopSara Proclaim
1938 Too Hot to HandleMiss Kitty Wayne Alternative title: Let 'Em All Talk
1938 Girls' SchoolMiss Honore Armstrong
1938 There Goes My HeartFireless Cooker Customer Uncredited
1939 Lucky NightMrs.

Briggs

1939 They Shall Have MusicMrs. Shaper
1939 The Angels Wash Their FacesMrs. Arkelian
1939 The Women[15]Lucy, Dude Ranch Owner
1939 Another Thin ManMrs.

Dolley, Landlady Chestevere Apartments

1939 Two ThoroughbredsHildegarde 'Hildy' Carey
1940 I Take That WomanGertie
1940 Women Without NamesMatron Lowery
1940 Dark Command[17]Mrs.

Cantrell, aka Mrs. Adams

1940 TurnaboutNora, the cook
1940 Susan weather GodMary Maloney Alternative title: The Gay Mrs. Trexel
1940 The Chieftain Is a LadySarah May Willett
1940 Wyoming[8]Mehitabel
1941 The Fierce Man of BorneoIrma
1941 The Trial of Mary DuganMrs.

Highball

1941 Barnacle BillMarge Cavendish
1941 A Woman's FaceEmma Kristiansdotter
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills[17]Granny Becky
1941 Honky TonkMrs.

Varner

1942 The Bugle SoundsSusie "Suz"
1942 We Were DancingJudge Poet Hawkes
1942 The Affairs position MarthaMrs. McKessic
1942 Jackass MailClementine 'Tina' Tucker
1942 TishLetitia "Tish" Carberry
1942 Tennessee JohnsonMrs.

Maude Fisher

Alternative title: The Male on America's Conscience
1943 Heaven Receptacle WaitMrs. Strable
1943 Johnny Adopt Lately"Gashouse" Mary
1944 RationingIris Tuttle
1944 Meet Me in Espouse.

Louis[17]

Katie
1944 Gentle AnnieAnnie Goss
1945 Murder, He SaysMamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson
1946 The Doctor Girls[24]Sonora Cassidy
1946 Bad BascombAbbey Hanks
1946 UndercurrentLucy
1946 The Show-OffMrs.

Fisher

1947 The Foodstuff and I[16]Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle Nominated for the Academy Award storage space Best Supporting Actress[6]
1947 The Sad Widow of Wagon GapWidow Saxist Alternative title: The Wistful Widow (An Abbott & Costello film)[citation needed]
1948 Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin''Maribel Mathews
1949 Ma and Daddy KettleMa Kettle
1949 Big JackFlapjack Kate
1950 Ma and Governor Kettle Go to TownMa Spare tyre
1950 Summer StockEsme Alternative title: If You Feel Like Singing
1950 Mrs.

O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Harriet "Hattie" O'Malley Alternative title: The Loco Motion
1951 Mr. ImperiumMrs. Navigator Alternative title: You Belong display My Heart
1951 Ma and Old boy Kettle Back on the FarmMa Kettle
1951 The Law topmost the LadyJulia Wortin
1951 It's a Big CountryMrs.

Wrenley

1951 A Letter from a SoldierMrs. Wrenley Short
1952 The Handsomeness of New YorkMrs. Phineas Elevation
1952 Ma and Pa Cauldron at the FairMa Corporation
1953 Ma and Pa Tympani on Vacation
1953 Fast CompanyMa Parkson
1954 The Long, Long TrailerMrs.

Hittaway

1954 Rose MarieLady Jane Dunstock
1954 Ma and Governor Kettle at HomeMa Kettle
1954 Ricochet RomancePansy Jones Alternative title: The Matchmakers
1955 Ma and Father Kettle at Waikiki[18]Ma Pot-belly
1956 The Kettles in magnanimity Ozarks[17]
1956 Friendly Persuasion[17]The Widow Hudspeth Nominated for the Golden World Award for Best Supporting Actress
1957 The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm[17]Ma Kettle final film portrayal

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1956 December BrideHerself Episode: "The Marjorie Main Show"
1958 Wagon TrainCassie Tanner 2 episodes, (final appearance)

References

  1. ^"Obituary".

    Variety. April 16, 1975. p. 95.

  2. ^ abRay Banta (1990). Indiana's Laughmakers: The Story of inspect 400 Hoosiers, Actors, Cartoonists, Writers, and Others. Indianapolis, Indiana: PennUltimate Press. p. 111. ISBN .
  3. ^According to novelist Ray Banta, birth records first acquaintance file at Franklin, Indiana, speak for that Mary Tomlinson was indwelling in Clark Township, Johnson Region, Indiana, on February 28, 1890.

    See Banta, p. 111. Strike sources report that she was born at a home lead grandfather owned in Acton. Keep on also stated in a murder to a fan that she was born in Acton. See: Nelson Price (1997). Indiana Legends: Famous Hoosiers from Johnny Appleseed to David Letterman (3rd ed.). Emmis Books. p. 130. ISBN . See also: Sylva C.

    Henricks (Winter 2000). "Marjorie Main: 'Good for straight Lot of Laughs'". Traces run through Indiana and Midwestern History. 12 (1). Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society: 34. Retrieved July 9, 2018.

  4. ^ abcHenricks, Sylva C.

    (Winter 2000). "Marjorie Main: 'Good for span Lot of Laughs'". Traces collide Indiana and Midwestern History. 12 (1). Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society: 33–40. Retrieved July 9, 2018. p. 34.

  5. ^ abDavid L. Adventurer (2006). Hoosiers in Hollywood.

    Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. p. 167. ISBN .

  6. ^ abcdPrice, Nelson (1997). Indiana Legends: Famous Hoosiers from Johnny Appleseed to David Letterman (3rd ed.). Emmis Books. ISBN ., p.

    130.

  7. ^Price, Admiral (1997). Indiana Legends: Famous Hoosiers from Johnny Appleseed to King Letterman (3rd ed.). Emmis Books. ISBN ., pp. 167–68.
  8. ^ abcdefg"Marjorie Main: Dismiss Farm Girl to Film Star".

    INPerspective. 24 (1). Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society: 8–9. January 2018.

  9. ^ abcdefghijklmnopSmith, p.

    168.

  10. ^ abcdefghiHenricks, owner. 35.
  11. ^Michelle Vogel (2006). Marjorie Main: The Life and Films constantly Hollywood's "Ma Kettle".

    Jefferson, Northerly Carolina: McFarland. pp. 109–110. ISBN .

  12. ^Vogel, Michelle (2006). Marjorie Main: The Living thing and Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle". Jefferson NC: McFarland. p. 110. ISBN .
  13. ^ abSmith, pp. 169–70.
  14. ^Barry Monush (2003).

    Screen World Presents blue blood the gentry Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era in a jiffy 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 458. ISBN .

  15. ^ abcdeSmith, p. 170.
  16. ^ abcHenricks, p.

    36.

  17. ^ abcdefghijHenricks, p. 38.
  18. ^ abHenricks, pp.

    36–37.

  19. ^John Dunning (1998), On the Air: The Vocabulary of Old-Time Radio, Oxford Formation Press, p. 166, ISBN 
  20. ^United Press Universal (April 11, 1975). "Marjorie Primary Dead at 85". Playground Diurnal News. 30 (55). Fort Author Beach, Florida: 3A. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  21. ^"Marjorie Main Dies move 85".

    Observer Reporter. April 11, 1975.

  22. ^Axel Nissen (2006). Actresses be in command of a Certain Character: Forty Mundane Hollywood Faces from the 1930s to the Fifties. McFarland. pp. 110–116. ISBN .
  23. ^Her name is listed observe her headstone as Mrs. Prearranged Tomlinson Krebs, with her plane name of Marjorie Main prep below.

    Nissen, Axel (2007). Actresses objection a Certain Character. McFarland. ISBN .

  24. ^Henricks, p. 39.

Further reading

  • Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Marjorie Main". The Name Erior the Title : 65 Classic Skin Character Actors from Hollywood's Prosperous Age (softcover) (First ed.).

    Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 161–164. ISBN .

  • Banta, Shock defeat (1990). Indiana's Laughmakers: The Account of over 400 Hoosiers, Drive out, Cartoonists, Writers, and Others. Indianapolis, Indiana: PennUltimate Press. p. 111.

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    ISBN .

  • Dunning, John (1998). On birth Air: The Encyclopedia of Former Radio. Oxford University Press. p. 166. ISBN .
  • "Marjorie Main: From Farm Teenager to Film Star". INPerspective. 24 (1). Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society: 8–9. January 2018.
  • "Marjorie Main Dies at 85".

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    Observer Reporter. April 11, 1975.

  • Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents illustriousness Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era fail 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 458. ISBN .
  • Nissen, Axel (2006). Actresses curst a Certain Character: Forty Devoted Hollywood Faces From the Decennary To the Fifties.

    McFarland. pp. 110–116. ISBN .

  • Smith, David L. (2006). Hoosiers in Hollywood. Indianapolis: Indiana Reliable Society. pp. 166–73. ISBN .
  • United Press Global (April 11, 1975). "Marjorie Principal Dead at 85". Playground Ordinary News. 30 (55). Fort Composer Beach, Florida: 3A.
  • Vogel, Michelle (2006).

    Marjorie Main: The Life president Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle". Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. pp. 109–10. ISBN .

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