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1	Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) more movies like this directed by Vincente Minnelli featuring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM screenwriters, who hoped to find a throughline to connect the anecdotal tales. After several false starts (one of which proposed that the eldest Smith daughter be kidnapped and held for ransom), the result was the charming ... see all copies from £4.14! new only from £5.11!
2	The Long, Long Trailer (1954) more movies like this directed by Vincente Minnelli featuring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Gladys Hurlbut At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of these, The Long, Long Trailer, stars Lucy and Desi as an upwardly mobile couple who decide to buy a trailer so they can live together while his job takes him around the country. Thanks to their naivete in such matters, they ... see all copies from £7.34! new only from £7.34!
3	Friendly Persuasion (1956) more movies like this directed by William Wyler featuring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Marjorie Main, Robert Middleton, Richard Eyer Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jessamyn West, Friendly Persuasion is set in Southern Indiana in the early days of the Civil War. Gary Cooper plays Jess Birdwell, patriarch of a Quaker family which does not believe in warfare. Birdwell's son Josh (Anthony Perkins) wishes to adhere to his family's pacifism, but is afraid that if he doesn't ... see all copies from £11.41! new only from £11.41!
4	Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) more movies like this directed by Charles Lamont featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Patricia Alphin The title couple and their enormous brood of bumpkins made their movie debut in the film version of Betty McDonald's humorous book The Egg and I (1947) where they appeared as supporting characters. Audiences found them funny and so the characters got their own long-running series of B movies. Ma and Pa Kettle is the first in that series and ... see all copies from £2.78! new only from £6.80!
5	Honky Tonk (1941) more movies like this directed by Jack Conway featuring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Main The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it really is. About to be tarred and featherd by an angry mob, frontier con artists Candy Johnson (Gable) and his pal Sniper (Chill Wills) manage to make a quick getaway via train. While on board, Candy strikes up a friendship ... see all copies from £14.61! new only from £16.67!
6	Summer Stock (1950) more movies like this directed by Charles Walters featuring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria de Haven, Marjorie Main Summer Stock represented Judy Garland's swan song at MGM. Garland plays the owner of a New England farm which entrepreneur Gene Kelly hopes to convert into a summer theatre. Gloria DeHaven, a member of Kelly's troupe, also happens to be Garland's sister. Aware that the farm is having financial difficulties, DeHaven talks the recalcitrant Garland ... see all copies from £9.22! new only from £9.22!
7	Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) more movies like this directed by Charles Lamont featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Brett Halsey This sixth in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" series produced by Universal stars (as usual) Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa. After a whirlwind international tour, the contest-winning rustics and their fifteen children return to their old farm. The eldest Kettle son (Brett Halsey) has a chance of winning a scholarship prize to a prestigious ... see all copies from £2.78! new only from £4.17!
8	The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956) more movies like this directed by Charles Lamont featuring Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel, Ted de Corsia, Olive Sturgess The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left the series). Carrying on without the Kettle paterfamilias, Ma Kettle (Marjorie Main) and her large brood of children head for the Ozarks to visit her brother-in-law Sedge (Arthur Hunnicutt). She spends a good portion of the ... see all copies from £15.15! new only from £15.15!
9	The Harvey Girls (1946) more movies like this directed by George Sidney featuring Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Marjorie Main, Preston S. Foster This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride. Upon arriving in New Mexico, Garland discovers that her husband-to-be is the town drunk. She cuts her losses and takes a job at the local Harvey restaurant, an establishment which endeavors to bring a little civilization and ... see all copies from £3.48! new only from £11.13!
10	Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) more movies like this directed by Edward Sedgwick featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Ray Collins This third entry in Universal's money-spinning "Ma and Pa Kettle" series once more stars Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as the title characters. This time, the Kettles extend their hospitality to their stuffy Boston in-laws (Ray Collins and Barbara Brown). Trouble brews when the Bostonites offer to raise the Kettles' grandson in a more "suitable ... see all copies from £2.78!
11	Undercurrent (1946) more movies like this directed by Vincente Minnelli featuring Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann Hamilton, the daughter of a scientist (Edmund Gwenn), who after a whirlwind romance marries handsome but slightly mysterious inventor turned businessman Alan Garroway (Robert Taylor). But wedded bliss proves short-lived when ... see all copies from £8.28! new only from £19.42!
12	Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953) more movies like this directed by Charles Lamont featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Bodil Miller, Sig Rumann This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the Universal back lot). All the standard "innocents abroad" gags are in attendance, including Pa Kettle's (Percy Kilbride) efforts to extinguish a flaming serving of crepes suzettes, and Ma's (Marjorie Main) entanglement with a ... see all copies from £2.78! new only from £3.94!
13	Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950) more movies like this directed by Charles Lamont featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Gregg Martell The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. This time, the Kettles win a letter-writing contest, which offers as first prize an all-expense-paid trip to New York City. Once in Manhattan, the huge Kettle brood raises all sorts of Holy Ned, culminating in an ... see all copies from £2.78! new only from £4.87!
14	Heaven Can Wait (1943) more movies like this directed by Ernst Lubitsch featuring Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many people had previously told him to go. The immaculately dressed septuagenarian arrives at the outer offices of Hades, where he is greeted by His Excellency (Laird Cregar), the most courteous and gentlemanly Satan in screen ... see all copies from £4.03! new only from £9.05!
15	Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952) more movies like this directed by Charles Barton featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, James Best, Lori Nelson, Esther Dale Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away nothing to reveal that Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride once more assume the title roles. The plot is motivated by Ma's desire to send daughter Rosie (Lori Nelson) to college. To that end, she intends to win a big cash prize at ... see all copies from £3.45! new only from £18.75!
16 view cover	Mr. Imperium (1951) more movies like this directed by Don Hartman featuring Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main, Barry Sullivan, Cedric Hardwicke Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet on vacation in Italy. After more than a decade, they reunite, only now Barlo is a Hollywood superstar and Imperium has ascended to the throne of king. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide see all copies from £2.78! new only from £2.78!
17 view cover	Little Tough Guy (1938) more movies like this directed by Harold Young featuring Billy Halop, Helen Parrish, Robert Wilcox, Marjorie Main, Gabriel Dell The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran Dead-Enders Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly and David Gorcey (Hally Chester and Billy Benedict would also appear in this new grouping from time to time). Though most of the "Little Tough Guy" vehicles were ... see all copies from £2.78! new only from £3.48!
18 view cover	Under the Big Top (1938) more movies like this directed by Karl Brown featuring Anne Nagel, Marjorie Main, Jack LaRue, Grant Richards, George Cleveland Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's Under the Big Top: slick and mildly entertaining, but not much more. Circus aerialist Penny (Anne Nagel) may be the queen of the trapeze, but she can't seem to manage her life on solid ground. She spends most of the film as the ... see all copies from £4.61! new only from £4.61!
19 view cover	The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957) more movies like this directed by Virgil Vogel featuring Marjorie Main, Parker Fennelly, Gloria Talbott, John Smith, George Dunn The 8-year-old "Ma and Pa Kettle Series" came to an end with The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. In her last screen appearance, Marjorie Main is back as Ma Kettle, while Parker Fennelly replaces the defecting Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. This time, Ma and Pa try to smooth the path of romance for newlyweds Sally Flemming (Gloria Talbot) and Brad ... see all copies from £8.35! new only from £8.35!
20 view cover	Johnny Come Lately (1943) more movies like this directed by William Howard featuring James Cagney, Grace George, Marjorie Main, Hattie McDaniel, Marjorie Lord, Edward McNamara For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney plays itinerant newspaperman Tom Richards, who wanders into a small corruption-ridden town. Striking up a friendship with elderly Vinnie McLeod (Grace George in her only movie appearance), the editor of the local newspaper, Tom ... see all copies from £8.96!

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