Holy smokes! Spring Byington and Marjorie Main were lovers!

[trof]

Both were popular character actors. Main gained pop fame as "Ma Kettle" in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" films.
Byington in the early sitcom "December Bride".

Byington was privately a lesbian. As is recently coming to light to the public, lesbianism was extremely common during the silver screen years of Hollywood. Interviewed by Boze Hadleigh for his book on Hollywood Lesbians, Byington's lesbian lover, actress Marjorie Main, with whom she had openly lived in Los Angeles, declared that "...it's true that Spring had no use for men", despite Byington's marriage(s) and children. Byington was also linked in an affair with actress/writer Maude Adams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Byington

[radwriter0555]

1. I KNEW ma kettle was a lesbian, dammit. I just knew it.

It's a shame our kids will never know the joys of Ma and Pa Kettle....

[Kat45]

2. Wow! Interesting.

[Fenris]

3. Finally! A Spring Byington reference on DU!

:D

[lumberingbear]

4. I really enjoyed both of these great ladies.

good for them!!!:-)

[Bucky]

6. well, apparently they enjoyed each other more

(hiding)

[lumberingbear]

8. Bad Bucky!

:spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

:hi:

[Bucky]

5. For a second there I thought you meant one of the Dixie Chicks

but of course that's Natalie Main.

[SeattleGirl]

7. Interesting. I didn't know that.

Man, I loved the Ma and Pa Kettle movies!

[Floogeldy]

9. And here I had the hots for Ma Kettle!

And to think that she would have spurned me is too much to take. ;)