
Marjorie Main
Oyuncu · 1890 – 1975 · Acton, Indiana, USA
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. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude-ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. At this time, she guest-starred on radio programs such as Columbia Presents Corwin and The Goldbergs. Main was signed to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract in 1940 and stayed with the studio until the mid-1950s. She made six films with Wallace Beery in the 1940s, including Barnacle Bill (1941), Jackass Mail (1942), and Bad Bascomb (1946). She played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, in The Harvey Girls (1946). The director George Sidney remarked in the commentary for the film that Miss Main was a "great lady" as well as a great actress who donated most of her paychecks over the years to the support of a school. Perhaps her most famous role is that of Ma Kettle, which she first played in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part and portrayed the character in nine more Ma and Pa Kettle films. By the early 1950s, she had appeared in several MGM musicals, including, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Belle of New York. She played Mrs. Wrenley in the studio's all-star film It's a Big Country (1951). In 1954, Marjorie Main played her last roles for the studio: Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer and Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie. In 1956, Main's performance as the widow Hudspeth in the hit film Friendly Persuasion was well-received, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1958, Main appeared twice as rugged frontierswoman Cassie Tanner in the episodes "The Cassie Tanner Story" and "The Sacramento Story" on NBC's television series Wagon Train. In the first segment, she joins the wagon train, casts her romantic interest on Ward Bond as Major Adams, and helps the train locate needed horses despite a Paiute threat.
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Film7.0KomediDramSt. Louis 1903. Smith ailesinin Easter ve küçük Tootie de dahil olmak üzere 4 güzel kızı vardır. 17 yaşındaki Easter yan taraflarındaki daireye yeni taşınan John’a aşık olmuştur. Mr. Smith New York’da daha iyi bir pozisyon için transfer olduğunda tüm aile şok olur. Çünkü bu onların St. Louis’den ayrılması anlamına gelmektedir.
Film6.6DramSavaş1956 yapımı yönetmen William Wyler'in savaşı sorgulayan filmi. Quakerlar'ın yaşadığı kasabadaki kiliseye gelen subay, dini inançları nedeniyle savaşa gitmeyi reddeden erkeklerle konuşur ve onları savaşa katılmaya çağırır.Bütün ülkeye yayılan savaş yakında kasabalarını da etkileyecektir. Jessamyn West'in aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan filmde Cooper ve Dorothy McGuire anne baba rolünde çok başarılı.6 dalda Oscar'a aday olan Cannes Film Festivali'nde En iyi Film Ödülü almıştır. Film kan dökmeyeceksin, beraber yaşayalım isimleriyle de bilinir.
Friendly Persuasion
1956 · 148 votes
Film6.9KomediRomantikLos Angeles Rams takımı oyun kurucusu Joe Pendleton geçirdiği bir trafik kazası sonucu cennete çağrılır. Pendleton'un bedeni cenaze sırasında yakılmıştır. Henüz ölmeye hazır olmayan Pendleton dünyaya cinayete kurban giden şirket sahibi yaşlı bir milyonerin vücudunda geri gönderilir. Hayatı alt üst olan sporcu tüm bunlarla baş etmeye çalışırken bir yandan da genç bir İngiliz kadına aşık olur.
Film7.2KomediDramA happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Women
1939 · 184 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikA newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.
The Long, Long Trailer
1954 · 60 votes
Film6.6DramWesternYoung Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941 · 64 votes
Film7.3KomediMüzikA fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1948 · 3 votes
Film6.8DramGerilimA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
A Woman's Face
1941 · 74 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikWorld War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
The Egg and I
1947 · 50 votes
Film6.7MüzikRomantikTo Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
Summer Stock
1950 · 59 votes
Film6.7KomediRomantikA medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
The Wild Man of Borneo
1941 · 3 votes
Film6.1KomediMaceraWhile in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
Too Hot to Handle
1938 · 22 votes
Film5.9DramGerilimAfter a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
Undercurrent
1946 · 53 votes
Film6.3WesternDramFast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Honky Tonk
1941 · 19 votes
Film7.0SuçDramGangster olan Bebek Yüzlü Martin, Doğu Yakasında gençliğinin geçtiği yerlere geri döner. Ne yazık ki bu dönüş onun için sadece bir hayal kırıklığı olacaktır çünkü annesi onu bir katil olarak görmektedir ve çocukluk aşkı fuhuşa düşmüştür...
Film6.2KomediWesternChester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947 · 20 votes
Film6.1DramRomantikJim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Test Pilot
1938 · 93 votes
Film6.5AileMüzikThe future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
They Shall Have Music
1939 · 11 votes
Film6.4DramRomantikİçsavaş sırasında Kansas yöresinde şiddet yaratan Quantrell baskıncılarının öyküsü. Günün birinde bir adam gelir ve bu baskınlara son verir.
Film5.9KomediDramComprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
It's a Big Country
1951 · 9 votes
Film6.6MüzikWesternOn a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
The Harvey Girls
1946 · 56 votes
Film5.8DramRomantikOn return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
I Take This Woman
1940 · 10 votes
Film7.1KomediGizemNick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr., when eccentric industrialist Colonel MacFay asks for protection after receiving threatening messages. When MacFay is found dead at his isolated estate, Nick and Nora spring into action, questioning a houseful of suspicious guests and uncovering greed, blackmail, family secrets, and a dangerous inheritance plot. With their trademark wit and sophistication, the glamorous couple balances parenthood, parties, and peril as they race to expose the killer.
Another Thin Man
1939 · 145 votes
Film5.7MüzikRomantikIn squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.
The Belle of New York
1952 · 15 votes
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Dizi6.6WesternDramThe series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Wagon Train
1957 · 31 votes
Dizi6.2KomediDecember Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
December Bride
1954 · 4 votes