Marjorie Main

Mary Tomlinson, professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an 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).

24 February 1890

Born on the same birth day (24 February): Anatoli Kozhemyakin • David Ford (politician) • Eddie Murray • Edward James Olmos • Emmanuelle Riva • Gigi Meroni • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola • Paula Zahn • Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro • Rama II • Royce Freeman • Wilhelm Grimm

Born in the same month (February 1890): Abdul Ghaffar Khan • Adolphe Menjou • Boris Pasternak • Charles Correll • Claro M. Recto • Dick Richards (footballer) • Fanny Kaplan • Jim McGirr • Mabel Keaton Staupers • Myra Hess • Nikolai Reek • Nina Hamnett • Robert Ley • Ronald Fisher