TCM Schedule for Thu, Apr 10, 2025: Rain & Main
Mary Tomlinson (February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975), professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an American character actress and singer of the Classical Hollywood period, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s and 1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies.
Main started her career in vaudeville and theatre, and appeared in film classics, such as The Women (1939), Dark Command (1940), The Shepherd of the Hills (1941), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and Friendly Persuasion (1956).
Samuel Goldwyn signed Main to reprise her stage role as the mother of a gangster for the film version of Dead End (1937). Humphrey Bogart was cast as her son. Main was signed to a seven-year Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) contract in 1940.
Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Main
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DAYTIME: (EST)
6:15 AM | The Rainmakers (1935)
A pair of rainmakers takes on a crooked businessman out to cash in on a drought.
Dir: Fred Guiol | Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee
8:00 AM | Soldier in the Rain (1963)
The bond of friendship between a worldly-wise Army Master Sergeant and his naive worshiper.
Dir: Ralph Nelson | Cast: Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld
10:00 AM | April Showers (1948)
A family vaudeville act is torn apart by the father's drinking problem.
Dir: James V. Kern | Cast: Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Alda
12:00 PM | Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound.
Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
2:00 PM | The Gentle Rain (1965)
A NYC teenager girl runs away to Rio where she falls in love with a mute architect.
Dir: Burt Balaban | Cast: Christopher George, Lynda Day, Fay Spain
4:00 PM | Miracle in the Rain (1956)
When a lonely woman's wartime lover dies, her loneliness threatens her life.
Dir: Rudolph Maté | Cast: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle
6:00 PM | The Rain People (1969)
A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola | Cast: James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM | Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
A family from the hills wins a slogan contest and moves into an automated home.
Dir: Charles Lamont | Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long
9:30 PM | The Women (1939)
A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
Dir: George Cukor | Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
12:00 AM | Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
A lawyer and a widow encounter murder on a train ride.
Dir: Norman Taurog | Cast: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak
1:30 AM | Barnacle Bill (1941)
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his finances.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Leo Carrillo
3:15 AM | Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
5:15 AM | MGM Parade Show #25 (1955)
Clips from "The Firefly" and "Meet Me in Las Vegas."
Cast: George Murphy (host), Jeanette MacDonald, Dan Dailey