Marjorie Main

She died in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer. Although they divorced in 1975, they re-married in 1988, seven years before he died in 1995. Her near-pathological fear of germs did not interfere with her career. In 1967, Sarah Miles married the British playwright Robert Bolt, who wrote the screenplay for the film Lady Caroline Lamb, in which she starred. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the role, and repeated it in nine more films. From time to time she retired for a few years, but was always available for roles on stage, where she is acclaimed for her performances. She played Ma Kettle in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. Miles has been acting since then in movies and also in TV films.

She made six comedies with Wallace Beery in the 1940s. After having been out of sight for several years acting in a variety of theater plays, she made in 1970 an outstanding performance in the lead role of David Lean's Ryan's Daughter, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. The following years she became a popular actress of New Wave with her roles in Joseph Losey's The Servant and in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the movie version of 1937, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. Shortly after her drama studies, Miles had her film debut in 1962 as a precocious schoolgirl in Terms of Trial, opposite Laurence Olivier. She married Stanley LeFevre Krebs, who died in 1935. At the age of 15 she enrolled at RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

She began playing upper class dowagers, but was ultimately typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles: her distinct voice was like chalk upon a blackboard. She was born in Ingatestone, Essex, England, as the daughter of a merchant. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931. Sarah Miles (born December 31, 1941) is an English theater and film actress. She worked in vaudeville on the Chautauqua and Orpheum circuits, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Terms of Trial (1962). Born in Acton, Indiana as Mary Tomlinson, she attended Franklin College, in Franklin, Indiana. She adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, who was a minister. The Servant (1963).

Marjorie Main (24 February 1890-10 April 1975) was an American character actress who was best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. The Ceremony (1963). The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm - 1957- Ma Kettle. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Friendly Persuasion - 1956. Time Lost and Time Remembered (1965). The Kettles in the Ozarks - 1956 - Ma Kettle. Blowup (1966).

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki - 1955 - Ma Kettle. Ryan's Daughter (1970). Ricochet Romance - 1954. Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). Rose Marie - 1954. The Hireling (1973). Ma and Pa Kettle at Home - 1954 - Ma Kettle. The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973).

The Long, Long Trailer - 1954. Bride to Be (1975). Fast Company - 1953. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976). Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation - 1953 - Ma Kettle. The Big Sleep (1978). Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair - 1952 - Ma Kettle. Priest of Love (1981).

The Belle of New York - 1952. Venom (1982). A Letter from a Soldier - 1951. Ordeal by Innocence (1984). It's a Big Country - 1951. Steaming (1985). The Law and the Lady - 1951. Hope and Glory (1987).

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm - 1951 - Ma Kettle. White Mischief (1987). Imperium - 1951. The Touch (1993). Mr. Days of Grace (2001). Malone - 1951. Jurij (2001).

O'Malley and Mr. The Accidental Detective (2003). Mrs. Summer Stock - 1950. Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town - 1950 - Ma Kettle.

The Harvey Girls - 1946. Murder, He Says - 1945. Gentle Annie - 1944. Louis - 1944.

Meet Me in St. Rationing - 1944. Johnny Come Lately - 1943. Heaven Can Wait - 1943.