Marjorie Main Movies

The life of a St. Louis family in the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Garland

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. Each will have their clandestine romance...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lana Turner

A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucille Ball

Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die....

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fred Astaire

To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores...

Genre: Music

Cast: Judy Garland

After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Don Ameche

Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early...

Genre: History

Cast: Van Heflin

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ethel Barrymore

Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clark Gable

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Wallace Beery

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Sheridan

Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marjorie Main

A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Morgan

Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Rita Hayworth

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wallace Beery

Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ann Blyth

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Myrna Loy

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Wallace Beery

A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.

Genre: Western

Cast: Wallace Beery

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wallace Beery

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Cromwell

A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Greer Garson

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marsha Hunt

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marjorie Main

An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lewis Stone

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ellen Drew

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Shirley

The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Wilcox

Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean Parker

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marjorie Main

A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.

Genre: Family

Cast: Jimmy Lydon

The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Crawford

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fredric March

The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed,...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Craig

With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.

Genre: Western

Cast: Wallace Beery

On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House"...

Genre: Music

Cast: Judy Garland

An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.

Genre: War

Cast: Wallace Beery

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Ross

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clark Gable

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jascha Heifetz

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Howard Keel

A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laraine Day

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Swanson

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Trevor

Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Coburn

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Gribbon

Harry Fox performs his vaudeville act.

Genre: Music

Cast: Harry Fox

Plotless musical revue celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bette Davis

Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Claude Rains

A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack E. Leonard

The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.

Genre: Action

Cast: Walter Connolly

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Taylor