Piper Laurie

She had a recurring role in the television series Twin Peaks. She died in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer. She received another Supporting Actress nomination in 1987 for Children of a Lesser God. Her near-pathological fear of germs did not interfere with her career. She appeared in the Australian film Tim opposite a very young Mel Gibson, but perhaps her most famous role in her later career was as the fanatically religious mother in Carrie, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the role, and repeated it in nine more films. Once again disenchanted with the work available, Laurie returned to semi-retirement to raise a family. She played Ma Kettle in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle.

In 1961 she returned to Hollywood to star opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She made six comedies with Wallace Beery in the 1940s. Dissatisfied with the work she was being offered in Hollywood, Laurie went to New York City in 1955 to work on the live television programs of the 1950s, in such productions as Twelfth Night and Days of Wine and Roses. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. She signed a contract with Universal Studios when she was 17, co-starring with Ronald Reagan in Louisa. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the movie version of 1937, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. Born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young. She married Stanley LeFevre Krebs, who died in 1935.

Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress. She began playing upper class dowagers, but was ultimately typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles: her distinct voice was like chalk upon a blackboard. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931. She worked in vaudeville on the Chautauqua and Orpheum circuits, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Born in Acton, Indiana as Mary Tomlinson, she attended Franklin College, in Franklin, Indiana. She adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, who was a minister.

Marjorie Main (24 February 1890-10 April 1975) was an American character actress who was best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm - 1957- Ma Kettle. Friendly Persuasion - 1956. The Kettles in the Ozarks - 1956 - Ma Kettle.

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki - 1955 - Ma Kettle. Ricochet Romance - 1954. Rose Marie - 1954. Ma and Pa Kettle at Home - 1954 - Ma Kettle.

The Long, Long Trailer - 1954. Fast Company - 1953. Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation - 1953 - Ma Kettle. Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair - 1952 - Ma Kettle.

The Belle of New York - 1952. A Letter from a Soldier - 1951. It's a Big Country - 1951. The Law and the Lady - 1951.

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm - 1951 - Ma Kettle. Imperium - 1951. Mr. Malone - 1951.

O'Malley and Mr. Mrs. Summer Stock - 1950. Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town - 1950 - Ma Kettle.

The Harvey Girls - 1946. Murder, He Says - 1945. Gentle Annie - 1944. Louis - 1944.

Meet Me in St. Rationing - 1944. Johnny Come Lately - 1943. Heaven Can Wait - 1943.