TCM Tribute to Character Actress Marjorie Main

[@truthteller8459]

RIP Ma Kettle. A heartfelt thanks for the MANY laughs you brought not only me but the ENTIRE world.

[@caspence56]

She was priceless in the movie "Friendly Persuasion" as the Widow Hudspeth. But, in my humble opinion, she was a gem in any role she played. Love you, Marjorie Main!

[@jimzaharia5327]

She should've gotten the Oscar- Ma & Pa Kettle are true classics!!

[@joyceedwards3336]

She Should Have Received an Oscar!

[@deanpd3402]

These days it's a reward not to receive an Oscar.

[@jimzaharia5327]

@@deanpd3402 Truer words never spoken!

[@lindafurr2404]

She was wonderful. It didn’t matter what movie she was in, she was always the character I never forgot!

[@tazgamerplays]

Even in 2019 she is still making people laugh. Ma and Pa Kettle is still making my kids laugh.

[@frankpaya690]

Now that's a legacy. I wouldn't think children born in the last 10 years or so, would be able to relate to Ma and Pa Kettle?

[@tazgamerplays]

@@frankpaya690 There's times that they even ask to watch them.

[@frankpaya690]

@@tazgamerplays that is good

[@marksausedo7137]

One of the truly talented actresses I've ever seen . She could make you believe she was ma kettle

[@cheyenne1380]

She reminded me of my grandmother. Everything just like her. I love all her movies.

[@robertmoir-vj1kq]

I just love Ma and Pa Kettle Debra Mc Bride oh let the old buzzard wait you know something Jonathan I think I m going to like you hahaha

[@nichill7474]

Her best scene was in a movie you didn’t even mention. She didn’t start in movies in the 40’s, she did movies in the 30’s, one of them Dead End as the mother of Humphrey Bogart. One of the best scenes in vintage movies.

[@marklauzon186]

I could NEVER get enough of this Woman!!!

[@tomc8115]

I love her in The Women. Those ditties she's singing are deliciously naughty.

[@robertnieten7259]

When i was a kid the Ma And Pa Kettle movies and Francis The Talking Mule were a couple of the great ones.

[@satori03]

Loved EVERYTHING about her

[@truthteller8459]

RIP Marjorie, your still loved by your fans.

[@henrymockingbird9645]

She would have made a great granny Clampett

[@theeasybeats5913]

No mention of Meet Me In St Louis?

[@windstorm1000]

Marjorie had a voice like a rusty old saw- but a rusty ol saw with warmth! Nobody had her vitality and fun on the screen. Did you know that she was the no. 2 ' pin up girl' after betty grable in the war? !

[@randysills4418]

I had no idea! That's hilarious!

[@frankpaya690]

OH- you're so full of BULLSHIT!

[@chrisranz2714]

I'm giving away my age, ma and PA kettle was a great comedy show.

[@davidcrincones8948]

Nobody, but nobody could ever have played this character, Ma Kettle, better than Marjorie Main.

[@elfowl2592]

FUNNY LADY!!!!!! love her.

[@Kenikex]

Love Marjorie Main, such a character.

[@barneysmith7758]

WOMAN, HERE >60yo. WHEN YOUNGER, wondered why older married couples had separate rooms. Presently married

[@pleiadian13]

Jack Cassidy said on the PERSONALITY interview show that there was a lot of Margery Maine in Shirley Jones. Which I think under the cutting comment was a tenderness about her natural side at home.

[@frankpaya690]

Yeah, he got drunk and burned to death in a fire.

[@michaelgabauer9697]

I love Marjorie! Keep on bossin' Ma Main

[@MarkMcCluney]

She sounds as mad as a box of snakes but I'd love to have met her. And isn't interesting to hear, in 2021, how she wore gloves and a 'veil' for fear of infection? Perhaps she was just ahead of her time...

[@ohmeowzer1]

I love her she is my favorite person

[@MrTantalust]

Watch Marge as Hillbilly matriarch Ma Fleagle in 'Murder he Says' (1945). Hysterical.

[@lavernewhiting9826]

I liked ma & pa kettle. was she spring's byington partner? 7-14-2016

[@johnnymfan5065]

Yes according to Wikipedia they were lovers Spring was like Janet Gaynor an extremely femme lesbian.

[@satori03]

since both have gone to their maker we will never know

[@kathrynfauble9053]

@satori cmaylo You are correct, Satori. There is no proof Marjorie Main performed a sexual act with a woman. There is evidence she remained devoted to the memory of her late husband. She referred to him as “Dr. Krebs.” He passed in 1935. May they both rest in peace.

[@danielstanwyck2812]

She indeed was a character and one of the best of them. Sounds a bit phobic, as well. And what about Spring Byington?? Rumors have it...?

[@thomasstewart5879]

daniel stanwyck but

[@dmdohse55]

the ma a pa movies were fabulas especially the eggand ione

[@dmdohse55]

maand pa kettle were priceless her w/the actor percy kelroy whas that him so funny

[@rhondacowan625]

She resembles my aunt loving and funny.

[@billfisher6464]

sounds like Bonnie Hunt narrated this piece.

[@charlesmoore8050]

Why can't we see full Pa and Ma Kettle movies?

[@fckfracking6409]

watched every one of ma and pa kettle..my cable went out!! can't believe the character pa was so dam lazy ha!!

[@robertmoir-vj1kq]

My Ma Kettle always

[@iasimov5960]

She was hilarious in Murder He Says.

[@frankpaya690]

She did a good dramatic role in the dead end kids in 1937. Where she played Humphrey Bogart's mother

[@loveyu2778]

I liked her when I was a kid

[@DeHirvilammi]

SHE IS GRAMPA HUBBARD 2ND COUSIN

[@gazza116]

loved ma

[@easongt]

Who is narrating this? Ashley Judd?

[@curtisrobinson7962]

She finally joined her beloved husband? Is this true? I have heard other stories, that she swung both ways but would rather go that way than this.

[@frankpaya690]

They always say that nowadays however I was just thinking before I read your comment that I wouldn't be surprised if she and her husband never consummated they're marriage.

[@mikewallace8087]

An impulsive and no muffler Mom with more children than she can remember their names. A mom has to do what a mom has to do in the name of survival.

[@danielbisson8032]

yes she was a hollywood lesbian lived with spring byington

[@Chrissywalters]

dan bisson wow! I never knew that!!

[@jTiroff]

Yes she enjoyed Pussy

[@kathrynfauble9053]

@daniel bisson There is no proof Marjorie Main performed a sexual act with a woman. There is evidence she remained devoted to the memory of her late husband, to whom she referred as “Dr. Krebs.” He passed in 1935. May they both rest in peace.

[@danielbisson8032]

@@kathrynfauble9053 very naive

[@holyspacemonkey]

@@kathrynfauble9053 Marjorie Main also described her husband’s death as "like losing a good friend. Like part of the family." She also said: "We pretty much went our own ways but we was still in the eyes of the law, man and wife." They spent most of their time apart. Incidentally she was 31 when she married Dr Krebs. He was 57. She lived another 24 years after he died. Her relationship with Spring Byington was widely known, according to Main’s biographer.

[@reidrr41]

I WISH THEY WOULD STOP WITH THE MUSIC....IT'S DISTRACTING