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Marjorie Main at a bond drive booth in Indiana in 1942. Main helped sell over $500,000 in war bonds during the visit to her home state.
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Marjorie Main at a bond drive booth in Indiana in 1942. Main helped sell over $500,000 in war bonds during the visit to her home state.
Marjorie Main ~born February 24, 1890 in Acton, Indianapolis, Indiana
🎞 American character actress and singer of the Classical Hollywood period, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s and 1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Main started her career in vaudeville and theatre, and appeared in film classics, such as Dead End (1937), The Women (1939), Dark Command (1940), The Shepherd of the Hills (1941), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and Friendly Persuasion (1956).
Marjorie was best known for playing "raucous, rough, and cantankerous women" on-screen, was characterized as "soft-spoken, shy," and "dignified" off-screen. (d: 1979 in Los Angeles, California, aged 85)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944)
Director: Vincente Minnelli Cinematography: George J. Folsey
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The minute you said keeps others in line, steely older woman, heart of gold I knew you were a match made in heaven for Marjorie. Slightly butch vibes, takes no shit, but always warm on the inside.
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Spring Byington, Marjorie Main, and Vera Felton via Bruce La Bruce
In The Women spielen, obwohl es nur ihnen handelt, bekanntermaßen keine Männer mit, und es enthält auch keinen Tanz und nur sehr zweifelhaften Gesang, aber dafür eine Modenschau in Technicolor. War jetzt auch mal wieder nötig.
MGM head Louis B. Mayer (C) feting Metro Goldwyn Mayer's 60th birthday in a group portrait. 1943
The Women (1939)
The most accidentally sapphic film of all time?
Director: George Cukor
Cinematographers: Joseph Ruttenberg and Oliver T. Marsh
Costume Designer: Adrian
Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson, Mary Boland, Florence Nash, Virginia Grey, Marjorie Main, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Butterfly McQueen, Theresa Harris, and Hedda Hopper.