Marjorie Main fans unite

Pa! Get your ass in here and eat your supper!

Was she a lesbyterian?

Yes she enjoyed nice fresh tender loving beaver.

America's favorite grandma Spring Byington was her longtime girlfriend.

She was surprisingly good in a serious role in A Woman’s Face (we all knew she was expert at comedy). Weren’t she and Spring Byington rumored to be a couple?

Didn’t u love Ma Kettle, r5?

If you look up bulldugger in a dictionary, you see her picture.

When I was a kid in the 1960s, she'd appear at the Christmas Lane Parade in Huntington Park, CA, one of the larger parades in L.A. I recall her riding in some gorgeous 1930s convertible roadsters, always wearing a large hat. It was a treat to see a real "star," and she was chief among the lesser-known celebs who'd tread to our blue-collar enclave every year.

Marjorie was reportedly "eccentric" (i.e. batshit crazy) on the set

Now she wasn't "Kate Jackson crazy" - she would show up and know her lines

But she reportedly had frequent conversations with her dead husband and had many OCD phobias that caused lot of other actors give her a wide-berth off camera

They had a "munch brunch" together every Saturday morning at Marjorie's with other celesbians like Hattie McDaniel and Barbara Stanwyck!

My favorite old Hollywood bulldyke!

R6. Oh, sure, but she did so much comedy and did it wellA, that it was hoodvtovseevherbinbavdrsmatic tole.

R12. Sorry, my iPhone just had a seizure.

She looks so mischievous in the OP pic, no wonder Spring was entranced.

God, when I look at their pictures and know how brutal it was to be closeted, I get choked up.

Ma Kettle?

Please.

Lucy in "The Women"!

[quote]Them big, strong, red-headed men... they're fierce!

Except we know that Spring Byington was Mrs. Marjorie Main.

Saw an interview with her, in which she described her audition for the Broadway “Dead End,” for the role of the downtrodden mother of the gangster. Her husband had recently died, and she was grief stricken. She hadn’t wanted to audition, but she forced herself. She ended up getting the role, which she played for 2 years, because she’d been so believable.

R9 You are right . She was crazy and often talked to her dead husband before acting. She is in my favorite film - " Meet Me In St. Louis"- " Cabbage has a cabbage smell" -" I wouldn't accept a propoasl over an invention"- " All men like it sweet, Mrs. Smith"! Don't know if she was gay. But on the DL all ugly actresses are always lesbian.

I used to get her mixed up with Marie Dressler.

r18, it's not a secret that she was gay

Did she come out in the Hadleigh interview?

Those Hadleigh interviews are....unlikely.

Yes, heavily closeted Hollywood gays and lesbians of the Golden Age are just going to open up to some fucking stranger to chat about their "secret" lives.

Uh, huh.

Poor ole Marjorie Main....very talented actress...a bit off her hinges...a very devout Christian....forever tagged as a lesbian because of vague rumors and not really much in the way of factual evidence.

I do wonder about Hadleigh. Why doesn't he release the tapes of all these interviews for monetary gain?

She is the quintessential Hoosier woman.

She has a small but great comic role as a landlady, Mrs. Dolley, in "Another Thin Man" with William Powell and Myrna Loy.

Her "singing" in The Harvey Girls is hilarious. She doesn't even try, just speaks the lyrics.

The meddling trailerite neighbor in "The Long, Long Trailer"...

Always been a fan of those no-nonsense, no-funny-stuff women. We need them now, badly.

R18 is a twat. She doesn't bother to know anything about people's biographies, and shits on DLers pretending to defend both "ugly women" and lesbians, peevishly showing her bias.

It's a beautiful women who get the treatment here, from Ava and Lana bumping pussy to Dietrich's pursuits to Jolie's "true nature" and on and on.

Stuff it, bigot.

[Quote] God, when I look at their pictures and know how brutal it was to be closeted, I get choked up.

If I had to choose the closeted life, I'd choose the Hollywood closet life - all those George Cukor parties.

Even Wiki states her husband was a friend and they rarely saw eachother. She pings to the moon and back and I'm a guy.

For me she's like Edward Everett Horton. I never think about them, but they always delight when they appear in a film.

Marjorie Main was in three films with Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Harvey Girls and Summer Stock. She had lots of scenes with Judy in each of them. Marjorie was about Ethel Gumm's age, I wonder if they liked each other and got along well?

I imagine one of her last public appearances was for the opening of "That's Entertainment", as he is seen in a sensible blue dress and mink jacket in the famous group photo taken at the premiere. She's right in front of Marge Champion and Cyd Charisse in the middle row.

I wonder how she navigated the casting couch. Did she have to take Louis B. Mayer's sausage twixt her nether lips to score roles?

Ma Kettle was one of my favorite characters although she was in numerous other movies playing a somewhat similar role although not as boisterous. Here she is helping some kids 'open' their birthday presents. She did have a way about her.

Here Ma is helping Pa get ready for the local weekend drag show - he does look quite fetching even before his hair and makeup are done!

Did she play any prison wardens?

She should have been screen tested for Scarlett O’Hara.