In press photographs she resembles Ma Kettle.

Matilda "Ma" Kettle - Owner of Ma Kettle's Tavern.

There are first-rate performances, too, from Marjorie Main as Ma Kettle and Louise Allbritton as the man-stealing hobby-farmer who lives down the road.

Marjorie Main The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle"

Actress Marjorie Main best known as Ma Kettle spent her teenage years here growing up on the first road north of town (300 North).

The woman I think of as Ma Kettle was there, accompanying her husband, my patient Pa.

To keep the tourists happy, I'm giving them Blanche DuBois and Ma Kettle over a hot pancake griddle.

She is often seen wearing a sweater that Ma Kettle made for her.

Marjorie Main, a veteran character actress, played a hardy country woman in dozens of films, and so was a natural for the role of Ma Kettle.