Biography: Marjorie Main |
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.... more
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Cast: Gary Cooper William Wyler
Tags: War Drama Drama Religious Drama Americana Family Drama
Length: 140min
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jessamyn West, Friendly Persuasion is set in Southern Indiana in the early days of the Civil War. Gary Cooper plays Jess Birdwell, patriarch of a Quaker family which does not believe in warfare. Birdwell's son...
The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)
Cast: Lou Costello
Tags: Comedy Film, TV & Radio
Length: 75min
The World of Abbott and Costello is a dismal attempt by Universal Pictures to cash in on the popularity of Robert Youngson's silent-movie compilation films. Random scenes from eighteen of the films of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are yanked out of...
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957)
Cast: Henry Mancini
Length: 80min
The 8-year-old "Ma and Pa Kettle Series" came to an end with The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. In her last screen appearance, Marjorie Main is back as Ma Kettle, while Parker Fennelly replaces the defecting Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. This time,...
The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
Cast: Marjorie Main
Length: 81min
The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left the series). Carrying on without the Kettle paterfamilias, Ma Kettle (Marjorie Main) and her large brood of children head for...
Cast: Bert Lahr Busby Berkeley
Length: 115min
1954's Rose Marie is the third film version of the 1924 Otto Harbach-Oscar Hammerstein-Rudolph Frinl operetta of the same name. Though not a completely faithful adaptation, this version is closer to the original than the (admittedly enjoyable) Nelson...
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)
Length: 81min
This sixth in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" series produced by Universal stars (as usual) Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa. After a whirlwind international tour, the contest-winning rustics and their fifteen children return to their old farm. The...
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)
Cast: Russell Johnson
Tags: Comedy Crime Domestic Comedy
Length: 79min
The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa (Percy Kilbride) take their brood to Hawaii, where Pa is to take over management of his cousin's fruit processing...
Cast: Desi Arnaz Lucille Ball Vincente Minnelli
Tags: Comedy Romantic Comedy Slapstick
Length: 97min
At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of these, The Long, Long Trailer, stars Lucy and Desi as an upwardly mobile couple who decide to buy a trailer so they can live...
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Western Comedy
Length: 80min
Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces everyone around her to pitch in and bring some life back into the place. She also sets her sights on...
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953)
Cast: Percy Kilbride
Length: 75min
This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the Universal back lot). All the standard "innocents abroad" gags are in attendance, including Pa Kettle's (Percy Kilbride) efforts...
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