Lowly clerk Aubrey Piper has a fondness for exaggerating about himself to impress people. Read More »
Tag Archives: Marjorie Main
Big Jack (1949) Richard Thorpe, Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main
Wallace Beery’s final film was the curiously endearing “black comedy” Big Jack. Read More »
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) Charles Lamont, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long
The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins Read More »
Murder, He Says (1945) George Marshall, Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Trotter pollster Pete Marshall is trying to find a missing coworker. Read More »
The Belle of New York (1952) Charles Walters, Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main
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. Read More »
Feudin’, Fussin’ and A-Fightin’ (1948) George Sherman, Donald O’Connor, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride
A fast-talking salesman is “kidnapped” by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community. Read More »
Fast Company (1953) John Sturges, Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Marjorie Main
The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father’s stable, she inherited. Read More »
The Affairs of Martha (1942) Jules Dassin, Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson, Marjorie Main
The town gossips are reporting that a household servant in exclusive Rocky Point is writing an expose of the colony. Read More »
Jackass Mail (1942) Norman Z. McLeod, Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish
Tiny Tucker delivers mail and attracted to her, Just Baggot becomes her new carrier. Read More »
Egg and I (1947) Chester Erskine, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Comedy, Romance
On their wedding night Bob informs his new bride Betty that he has bought a chicken farm. Read More »
Gentle Annie (1944) Andrew Marton, James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Romance, Western
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. Read More »
The Long, Long Trailer (1953) Vincente Minnelli, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Comedy, Romance
Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels–a trailer. Read More »
Barnacle Bill (1941) Richard Thorpe, Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Leo Carrillo, Drama, Comedy
A grumpy old fisherman tries to avoid marriage, contend with a daughter he never knew he had and scuttle the attempts of landlubbers who want to rob him of his seagiong livelihood, while the locals try to reform him.
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Tish (1942) S. Sylvan Simon, Marjorie Main, Zasu Pitts, Aline MacMahon, Comedy, Drama
Letitia “Tish” Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew, Charlie Sands, and her two cronies, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, live in a near-by boarding house. Read More »
The Bugle Sounds (1942) S. Sylvan Simon, Richard Thorpe, Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Lewis Stone, Drama, War
Sergeant “Hap” Doan, heartbroken that the Nineteenth Cavalry, in which he has served for so many years, is to be mechanized and replenished with twenty recent draftees, goes on a drinking spree. He rails about leaving the Army, but is there when the draftees arrive, ready to make good soldiers out of them. When his horse, Cantigny, is killed by the explosion of a tank that had been sabotaged by Nazi-agents, he goes AWOL, and is court-martialed upon his return and given a dishonorable discharge. But he is under secret orders from his Commanding Officer to join the gang of German spies, who have every reason to believe they can trust the disgruntled ex-sergeant..
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