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IN THE MAIN

One of the treats in watching Friendly Persuasion was to see a sizable segment featuring Marjorie Main as the widowed head of a homestead.

Her three marriagable daughters are all over poor little homosexual Anthony Perkins! You can see his panic.

Main was often featured in films just to show off her incredible comedic talent. She could bug her eyes and roll her head and grimace enough to steal any scene. A sort of feminine hillbilly rastus. Think about it.

We last saw her in Dead End as the long suffering mother. She was in many many westerns and finally got her own features in the Ma and Pa Kettle series with Percy Kilbride.

I loved her as a kid and yesterday I found out that I still love her.

Marjorie Main.