Laura La Plante

. She died in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer. She died in Woodland Hills, California from Alzheimer's Disease. Her near-pathological fear of germs did not interfere with her career. She was the sister of actress Violet La Plante. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the role, and repeated it in nine more films. She appeared in only a handful of films with the advent of talking pictures, and retired in 1957. She played Ma Kettle in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle.

During the 1920s she appeared in more than sixty films, and achieved her greatest success in the 1929 film Show Boat. She made six comedies with Wallace Beery in the 1940s. Louis, Missouri, La Plante made her acting debut at the age of 15, and in 1923 was named as one of the years WAMPAS Baby Stars. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. Born Laura La Plant in St. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the movie version of 1937, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. Laura La Plante (November 1, 1904 - October 14, 1996) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success in silent movies. She married Stanley LeFevre Krebs, who died in 1935.

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.