In the mid-1940s, in an attempt to repeat the great success Wallace Beery had in teaming with Marie Dressler in the early 1930s, MGM cast Main opposite Beery in six more films, including "Barnacle Bill" (1941), "Jackass Mail" (1942), and "Bad Bascomb" (1946). She also played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, in "The Harvey Girls" (1946). Director George Sidney remarked in the commentary for the film that 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.