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Roberto Stopello
Creator · Known for Senora Acero
Roberto Stopello is a Venezuelan writer and screenwriter of Colombian-American telenovelas. He was vice president of content development for Telemundo.1 He is also known for his work on RTI Television as the author of La reina del sur and Argos Comunicación por Señora Acero. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carolina Miranda
Cast · Known for Senora Acero
Born in Guanajuato, Mexico, Carolina, Miranda is an actress mainly known for her work in soap operas and television series. She appeared first on the small screen in 2012 for Los Rey as Fina Rey before finding a lead role in the soap opera Las Bravo where she played Carmen Bravo. The role of Carmen Bravo gained Carolina Miranda a Palma de Oro award, an award recognized at a national level. In 2015, Carolina was part of a reality show, La Isla. In that same year, she acted in a play called La Visita del Ángel, directed by Raúl Quintanilla. Carolina also worked on two web series, Amor de Ciegas and La Cena, which won Best Web Series in the Baja California Festival. Recently completing her fifth season of the highly successful television program on Telemundo, Señora Acero, Carolina received The Produ Awards as Actress of Revelation in 2016 for interpreting the queen of narco, Vicenta Acera, where she was chosen from a large panel of producers and executives where different productions and actors compete at an international level. Carolina Miranda also won Best Actress in Los México Awards in 2018, demonstrating the grand effect that she has on entertainment.
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final screen appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018). Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and he was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Belafonte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Carlos Santos
Director · Known for Crazy Magical Mexico
Carlos Santos is a Mexican actor and director, trained at the Center for Artistic Education (CEA) of Televisa and who began his career in brief roles in soap operas and series on said television station, in addition to being part of different theater companies. His talent began to develop as a director of content and artistic development, which led him to emigrate to Miami, where he was part of Univisión, Imagina Usa and Cisneros Media. He has been a casting director, acting and theater teacher, as well as a coach for actors and director of television series and short films. Recently, Santos debuts in feature films, with the crime and comedy film Chilangolandia (2021) and Señora Influencer (2023).
Vicente Leñero
Writer · Known for The Blue Room
Playwright and narrator. Studied Engineering at UNAM and Journalism at Escuela Carlos Septién García. Director of Revista de Revistas; deputy director of Proceso. His plays Pueblo rechazado, Compañero, La carpa, Alicia tal vez, Pelearán diez rounds, Hace ya tanto tiempo, Señora, La noche de Hernán Cortés, La mudanza and Nadie sabe nada, among others, have been premiered. Reporter and director of Excélsior, Proceso and Revista de Revistas. Fellow of the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica de Madrid, 1956; of the CME, 1961 and 1964; and of the Guggenheim Foundation, 1967. Member of the SNCA, as creator emeritus, since 1994. Member of the Mexican Academy of Language since 2010. First and second place in the National University Short Story Contest 1958. Winner of the Biblioteca Breve Award 1963 for Los albañiles. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Award for the best play premiered in Mexico 1979 for La mudanza. Mazatlán Literature Award 1987 for Puros cuentos. Awards for the best play of the year granted by the Agrupación de Periodistas Teatrales and El Heraldo 1988 for Nadie sabe nada. National Literature Award Juan Ruiz de Alarcón 1992 for his career as a playwright. Fernando Benítez National Cultural Journalism Award 1997. Xavier Villaurrutia Award 2000 for La inocencia de este mundo. National Prize of Sciences and Arts, in Literature and Linguistics, 2001. Salvador Toscano Medal 2008, awarded by the Cineteca Nacional, the Carmen Toscano Foundation and the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in recognition of his work as a film screenwriter. Letras de Sinaloa Award 2009. Bellas Artes Medal in 2011, for his career as a playwright. Presea Caridad Bravo Adams, awarded by SOGEM, in 2014.
María Elena Swett
Cast · Known for Papi Ricky: La Película
María Elena Swett Urquieta is a Chilean actress. She was born in Santiago on April 11, 1979. Formerly married to the Chilean actor Felipe Braun. She is also known as "Mane" by friends and family. She studied at Colegio Nuestra Señora del Pilar and later at the Academia de Humanidades de Recoleta. Finally, she studied theater at the DUOC. She started her career at the Chilean channel Canal 13, but moved to TVN in 2008. She got notable success with her role of Fernanda in the telenovela called Machos. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beatriz Valdés
Cast · Known for Válgame Dios
Beatriz Valdes Fidalgo nació bajo el seno de una familia cubana, se crio junto a su madre y su familia materna. A la edad de 8 años inicia cursos en un taller infantil de instrucción artística; el más reconocido de La Habana, donde realizaba diversas actividades. Se destacó en series juveniles y telenovelas como "Algo más que soñar" (1984) exitosa serie televisiva que relataba las vidas y experiencias de cuatro jóvenes reclutas de la Cuba de los 70 y en la que Beatriz interpretaba además uno de los temas musicales: "Ya se va aquella edad", compuesto por Pablo Milanés. También protagonizó la telenovela "Tren de noviembre" (1989) junto al entonces debutante Jorge Treto. En el cine su primera gran oportunidad le llegó con "Los pájaros tirándole a la escopeta" (1984) comedia dirigida por Rolando Díaz, en la que tuvo como compañeros de reparto a los grandes actores cubanos Reinaldo Miravalles, Consuelo Vidal y Alberto Pujol, en una divertida historia sobre un joven machista que no entiende que su madura madre se enamore del padre de su novia. Siguieron películas como "Lejanía" (1985) de Jesús Díaz, que abordaba el tema del exilio y el reencuentro de una madre con su hijo; "Como nosotros" (1985) que narraba una historia de amor en el marco de la Guerra de Independencia cubana de 1985; "Como la vida misma" (1985), filme de Víctor Casaus, inspirado en una obra teatral, centrada en los problemas de los jóvenes en una Escuela en el campo y su más grande éxito "La bella del Alhambra" (1989), de Enrique Pineda Barnet, basada en la novela "Canción de Rachel" de Miguel Barnet, que narraba la vida de una corista del célebre teatro habanero "Alhambra" a principios del siglo XX, época de gloria del teatro musical cubano en medio de los turbios acontecimientos y manejos políticos de la naciente República. Llegó a Venezuela tras ser invitada al primer Foro Interamericano de Cine en 1989. En aquellas fechas da a luz a su primer hijo Mauricio y en 1991 regresa de nuevo a tierras venezolanas para así actuar en una película que sería filmada en la ciudad de Mérida llamada Grisalla. En los últimos años ha trabajado en filmes cubanos como "Perfecto amor equivocado" y el documental de largometraje de Carlos Barba conmemorando el vigésimo aniversario del estreno de "La bella del Alhambra". Es toda una gran señora de la actuación muy versatil y única.
Mirelly Taylor
Mirelly Taylor is a Mexican-American actress known for her performace on ABC’s series “LOST” as Isabella Alpert opposite Nestor Carbonell. That role led to terrific parts in series such as FX’s “Terriers,” and A&E’s/Happy Madison pilot “Big Mike.” She also landed a couple of key lead roles in films to be released late 2013 and early 2014. First up is the western genre film “Hot Bath an’ a Stiff Drink,” a classic western tale of revenge, where she plays a bad-ass sharp shooting bank robber. She also stars in the film “Roswell FM,” a quirky romantic comedy, playing a radio-show host focusing on the paranormal. At the end of 2012 she also appeared in “Elf-Man” the top kids Christmas comedy on REDBOX opposite Mackenzie Astin (“Iron Will.”) She soon found herself appearing in films like “Serving Sara,” with Elizabeth Hurley, Matthew Perry, and Amy Adams, “Hollywood Homicide” with Josh Hartnett and “Down with Love “ with Ewan McGregor. And she kept going, landing lead roles in “Kiss Me Again,” with Jeremy London and Elisa Donovan, and cult classic “The Prodigy.” But it was her lead performance in the powerful and controversial film “Beyond Honor” that garnered her rave notices. Her theater work includes regional productions of “Les Miserables” as Eponine, “The Rainmaker” as Lizzy, “The Odyssey” as several characters, “Pillow Talk” as Meche, “The Spell” as Katherine, “8 Reindeer Monologues” as Blitzen, and “Senora Tortuga” as Leticia. She also toured nationally with the Kids WB show for a year. She sang lead vocals for Knockturn’al’s music video directed by Brad Furman, and guest starred on many notable television shows which include “Numb3rs”, “PunK’d’, “Las Vegas”, “Crash”, “CSI:NY,” and more. She is married to actor Brian Tee and they have 1 child.
Sonora Chase
Gabriela Senra
Cast · Known for Sítio do Picapau Amarelo
Susan Roces
Cast · Known for Brothers
Jesusa Purificacion Levy Sonora-Poe (July 28, 1941 - May 20, 2022), better known by her screen name Susan Roces, was a Filipina actress and widow of Ronald Allan Kelley Poe, better known as Fernando Poe Jr. She is known for being the "Queen of Philippine Movies" in the 1960s and 1970s. She is also known for the main role of Flora "Lola Kap" S. Borja-de Leon from FPJ's Ang Probinsyano which began airing on ABS-CBN from September 28, 2015 to May 20, 2022.
Sergio Osuna
Cast · Known for The Magicians
Sergio Osuna was born in the city of Hermosillo, Sonora; Mexico. When he was eighteen years old he moved to Vancouver, Canada to study English and eventually pursue acting. He is an actor known for his recurring roles in Rush (2014), Impastor (2015) and most recently The Magicians (2015).
Vaughn Armstrong
Cast · Known for Star Trek: Enterprise
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Vaughn Dale Armstrong (born July 7, 1950 in Sonora, California) is an American actor. Armstrong served in the United States military and saw action in the Vietnam War. Star Trek Vaughn Armstrong is one of the longest-serving actors in the Star Trek franchise, having appeared in every Trek series but the original. He has played twelve different characters over the years - a record unmatched by any other actor in Trek. Armstrong's first appearance in Trek was in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Heart of Glory" in which he played Commander Korris, a renegade Klingon who stole a cargo ship and tried to use it to attack his fellow Klingons (whom he believed had gone "soft"). His other characters are: Klingons: Commander Korris (Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Heart of Glory") Korath (Star Trek: Voyager episode "Endgame", also appearing in Star Trek: The Experience) Klaax (Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Sleeping Dogs") Cardassians: Gul Danar (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Past Prologue") Seskal (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "When It Rains…" and "The Dogs of War") Romulan: Telek R'Mor (Star Trek: Voyager episode "Eye of the Needle") Borg: Lansor/Two of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager episode "Survival Instinct") Vidiian: Vidiian Captain (Star Trek: Voyager episode "Fury") Human: Admiral Forrest (recurring role on Star Trek: Enterprise) Captain Maximilian Forrest (Mirror Universe version of Admiral Forrest) Hirogen: Hirogen-Alpha (Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flesh and Blood") Kreetassan: Kreetassan Captain (Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Vox Sola" and "A Night In Sickbay") While his most recent character, Admiral Forrest, was killed in action on Star Trek: Enterprise, Armstrong got the chance to play Forrest again in the two-part episode "In a Mirror, Darkly", in which the Mirror Universe version of Forrest appears. Other work Outside of Star Trek, Armstrong appeared on Babylon 5 as a security guard affiliated with the Nightwatch in the 1996 episodes "Messages from Earth" and "Point of No Return". He appeared in an episode of Seinfeld as a detective, and in Quantum Leap, he guest starred in the episode "It's A Wonderful Leap" as Fred Trump (father of Donald Trump), alongside future Enterprise co-star Scott Bakula. In 2000, Armstrong made an appearance in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue as Special Agent Myers and has also appeared in such classic feature films as Cinderella 2000 and The Philadelphia Experiment. He appeared as President Krieger in Disruptor (video game) released in 1996. Armstrong's talents extend into the musical arena. He has mastered the ukulele, using a "banjo"-style ukulele he made himself. With it he entertains audiences with Civil War-era songs and roots music, leading into the blues music he plays with others. His Trek-related blues songs are popular at convention appearances. His filk-song band, The Enterprise Blues Band, includes fellow Trek actors Richard Herd (Owen Paris), Steve Rankin (Colonel Green and other roles), and Casey Biggs (Damar). He has joked onstage during conventions that he is the innovator of Klingon "gutbucket" music, and Andorian blues.
Fernanda Castillo
Cast · Known for I Would Rather Die, El Señor de los Cielos
Mexican actress born in Mexico City as María Fernanda Castillo García. She is an actress, known for El Señor de los Cielos (2013), Rumbos Paralelos (2016) No manches Frida (2016) and El Chema (2016).
Earl Boen
Cast · Known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Terminator
Earl Boen (August 8, 1941 - January 5, 2023) was an American actor and voice actor, best known as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. He is the only actor besides Arnold Schwarzenegger to appear in each of the first three Terminator films. He also did voiced characters such as Mr. Bleakman in Clifford the Big Red Dog and Señor Senior Sr. in Kim Possible.
Tom Yi
Cast · Known for The Purge
His work credits include numerous regional and national commercials, as well as roles in episodic television, including a recurring role on FX's The Shield (2002) as Detective Rodriguez. One of his favorite working experiences was a small role on The West Wing (1999), where he received valuable career advice from Martin Sheen. Other notable appearances on comedy series are Monk (2002), The Office (2005), Men of a Certain Age (2009) and season four of Arrested Development (2003). Recognized for his role as Rabbi Chang, brother to Ken Jeong Señor Chang, on the NBC's Community (2009). Comedic film credits include roles in Senior Skip Day (2008), Bridesmaids (2011) - directed by Paul Feig and This Is 40 (2012) - directed by Judd Apatow. In 2013 he departs from comedy and plays Mr. Cali in a Science Fiction film, The Purge (2013), written and directed by James DeMonaco, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey.
Arianna Powell
Arianna has played in the house band of American Idol and in guest artist bands of Dua Lipa, Will.i.AM, Lauren Jauregui and more on late night and daytime TV shows including SNL, Ellen, Seth Meyers, Graham Norton, and James Corden. In May of 2017, Arianna was featured in Guitar Player Magazine’s “50 Sensational Female Guitarists” cover story. Arianna is also a session guitarist and is most notably featured on Halsey’s Manic (Deluxe) album playing guitar on her stripped song versions. Arianna is an artist herself, most passionate about solo guitar composition. Since graduating college and earning a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Music Education from Duquesne University, Arianna has become an avid educator, teaching masterclasses for PickUp Music, Sonora Guitar Intensive, and Los Angeles Music College. She has taught hundreds of individuals privately over the course of her career.
Ângela Vieira
Cast · Known for Snakes & Lizards
Ângela Regina Vieira (Rio de Janeiro, March 3, 1952) is a Brazilian actress, dancer, and choreographer. In the 1970s, she left the Corpo de Baile do Municipal do Rio de Janeiro to pursue an acting career. She debuted on Globo with appearances in the humorous Planeta dos Homens (1978) and Chico Anysio Show (1979). She also began to work in cinema and theater, with performing arts and dance shows. In soap operas, there were several prominent characters. Among them, the ambitious Mara from Corpo Santo (1987), the submissive Irene from A Idade da Loba (1995), the betrayed Virgínia from Por Amor (1997), the bitter Janete from Terra Nostra (1999), the elegant Gisela de Senhora do Destino (2004), among others. The most recent works were in Pega Pega (2017) and Bom Sucesso (2019). She has been married to journalist Miguel Paiva since 2004. Before that, she lived with actor Roberto Frota from 1983 to 1997, father of her only daughter, Nina.
Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Cast · Known for La rosa de Guadalupe
Patricia Verónica Núñez Reyes Spíndola (born 11 July 1953) is a Mexican actress, director and producer in films, TV series and theatre plays. She studied to become an actress in several ateliers in Mexico and London. She made her début in the movies in 1972, with El señor de Osanto, and two years later she started working in the Teatro Fru Fru. As an actress, she has worked with directors like Nancy Cárdenas or Arturo Ripstein. She has also worked in famous Mexican telenovelas. She won the Ariel prize for her roles in Los motivos de Luz and La reina de la noche. She has an acting school she runs with her sister, Marta Reyes Spíndola, in the Colonia Juárez neighborhood of Mexico City called M & M Studio, where she also teaches. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patricia Reyes Spíndola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Tony Ward
Anthony Borden Ward aka Tony Ward was born in Santa Cruz, California on June 10, 1963 to Robert Borden Ward, from Kansas and Karen Elizabeth Castro of California. Ward is the second of three sons and spent his childhood mostly in San Jose before moving to Sonora where he graduated from high school. From there he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of being an actor/model/dancer. Tony was discovered by a scout while attending West Valley College in Saratoga, California and started modeling at age eighteen.
Roger C. Carmel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roger Charles Carmel (September 27, 1932, Brooklyn, New York – November 11, 1986, Hollywood, California) was an American actor. Of his hundreds of roles, he is best remembered for playing the flamboyant and hapless criminal Harry Mudd on the original Star Trek. Other memorable roles include the accountant Doug Wesley on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Colonel Gumm on Batman. He also appeared in roles on Patty Duke Show, I Spy, Hogan's Heroes, Banacek. The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Munsters, Hawaii Five-O, and many other shows. He also appeared in such movie classics as Alfred Hitchcock"s North by Northwest. Carmel was also the voice of Smokey Bear in fire safety advertisements, as well as Decepticon Lieutenant Cyclonus, amongst others in the second and third seasons of the popular Transformers animated series. In the TV commercials for the Naugles chain of Mexican fast-food restaurants, he played the character of Señor Naugles. He also appeared in Jerry Lewis's comeback 1981 film, Hardly Working. Carmel starred as Roger Buell in the 1967 NBC sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, but was replaced by Richard Deacon. Officially, Carmel had a salary dispute with producer Desi Arnaz, although, according to rumors, he was fired because his drug use interfered with production. Carmel was slated to reprise his role as Harry Mudd in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season finale episode, The Neutral Zone, but died before filming could commence. He died in Hollywood, California, of congestive heart failure due to an enlarged heart muscle. Carmel is interred in New Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger C. Carmel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Robinson Díaz
Cast · Known for El Señor de los Cielos
Robinson Díaz was born in Envigado in 1966. He began acting as a teenager at the INEM school in Medellín in a theater group he formed with his friends, where he staged plays by authors such as Carlos José Reyes and Luis Enrique Osorio. Eager to become a professional, he traveled to Bogota to attend the National School of Dramatic Art (ENAD), where he graduated as a master in performing arts in 1991. Since then he has participated in more than 25 professional plays from Moliere to Shakespeare, including national authors and contemporary playwrights, and has more than 35 television and film productions on his resume that show his dedication to the art of acting. His long and solid career in television, film and theater has allowed him to travel with his shows to many countries. He was an exclusive actor for Caracol Television for 20 years between 1997 and 2014 standing out in productions such as La mujer del Presidente, La otra mitad del sol, Pecados capitales, La Saga, El Cartel de los Sapos, Vecinos, La pena máxima, Bolívar soy yo, El Cartel de los Sapos, El Señor de los Cielos (1,2,5,6,7), El laberinto, La gente de la Universal, Te amo Ana Elisa, Mentiras Perfectas, Tiro de gracia etc. In 2019 he is hired as an exclusive actor for Telemundo network. His interpretative record has earned him numerous national and international awards. He develops his work in the three languages and currently participates and produces one of the theater versions of "La Dama de Negro" with his wife, also an actress and producer: Adriana Arango. In this play he also works with the Mexican Rafael Perrin, and at the same time works in the version of "Wenses y Lala", a play written and directed by Adrián Vázquez at the Casa E theater in Bogotá, where he lives.
Tres Hanley
Hanley trained as an opera singer at the Juilliard School. A teenage protégé of Leonard Bernstein, she was a soloist in the Great Composers Series singing his work Glitter and Be Gay (Candide). Much of her early work was in musical theatre prior to transitioning into TV and Film. She played Polly Peachum in a London production The Beggar's Opera which was part of London's West End summer (limited run) season Open Air Theatre productions at Holland, Cannazaro and Regent's Parks in the 1990s Aside from her TV, film and voice over work, she was most known in Germany and in parts of Europe in the mid-late 90s as the Bacardi girl as well as for a comic worldwide commercial (NCR) opposite Toby Jones. In 2007 she released a European Dance single "Dance of the Euro Diva”. The music was composed by Éric Serra. The piece was originally written for the film The Fifth Element. Personal life: Paramours included actor Javier Bardem, whom she met while working on Mouth to Mouth (aka Boca a Boca). Others included British TV personality James Hewitt, the former British household cavalry officer, who is most notable for being the long time lover of Diana, Princess of Wales. In the early 90’s she dated Phantom of the Opera collaborator Charles Hart (lyricist). Hart penned one of the songs on Hanley’s album A SIREN’S ODYSSEY. Rumored relationships include Hugh Grant, and Prince Albert of Monaco with whom European tabloids photographed her in the mid 1990’s sharing an intimate kiss while at a Paris nightclub, though no confirmation of a relationship was ever reported. She has been married to architect and entrepreneur Paul Millman since 2003. Trivia: -She was originally cast in a small role in Eyes Wide Shut -where she was filming for one month. With Kubrick's constant daily rewrites, eventually Hanley's scene was eventually dropped. -She is featured on the film soundtrack for Mouth to Mouth (Boca A Boca) singing "Si Senor" -She is a Vegan and active in animal activism.
Marjorie Main
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marjorie Main (born Mary Tomlinson, February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975) was an American actress, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player and for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Main worked in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit and in Chautauqua presentations, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931. Main began playing upper class dowagers, but ultimately was typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles, for which her distinctive voice was well suited. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the 1937 film version, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude-ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. At this time, she guest-starred on radio programs such as Columbia Presents Corwin and The Goldbergs. Main was signed to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract in 1940 and stayed with the studio until the mid-1950s. She made six films with Wallace Beery in the 1940s, including Barnacle Bill (1941), Jackass Mail (1942), and Bad Bascomb (1946). She played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, in The Harvey Girls (1946). The director George Sidney remarked in the commentary for the film that Miss Main was a "great lady" as well as a great actress who donated most of her paychecks over the years to the support of a school. Perhaps her most famous role is that of Ma Kettle, which she first played in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part and portrayed the character in nine more Ma and Pa Kettle films. By the early 1950s, she had appeared in several MGM musicals, including, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Belle of New York. She played Mrs. Wrenley in the studio's all-star film It's a Big Country (1951). In 1954, Marjorie Main played her last roles for the studio: Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer and Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie. In 1956, Main's performance as the widow Hudspeth in the hit film Friendly Persuasion was well-received, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1958, Main appeared twice as rugged frontierswoman Cassie Tanner in the episodes "The Cassie Tanner Story" and "The Sacramento Story" on NBC's television series Wagon Train. In the first segment, she joins the wagon train, casts her romantic interest on Ward Bond as Major Adams, and helps the train locate needed horses despite a Paiute threat.