Marie Dressler
Actor/Actriz
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Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star. Successful on stage in vaudeville and comic operas, she was also successful in film.
Leaving home at the age of 14, Dressler built a career on stage in traveling theatre troupes, where she learned to appreciate her talent in making people laugh. In 1892 she started a career on Broadway that lasted into the 1920s, performing comedic roles that allowed her to improvise to get laughs. From one of her successful Broadway roles, she played the titular role in the first full-length screen comedy, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), opposite Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. She made several shorts, but mostly worked in New York City on stage. Her career declined in the 1920s.
In 1927, Dressler returned to films at the age of 59 and experienced a remarkable string of successes. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930–31 for Min and Bill and was named the top film star for 1932 and 1933.
Marie Dressler died of cancer in 1934.
As Actor/Actress
MGM Parade
self
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Dinner at Eight
Carlotta Vance
The Patsy
Ma Harrington
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Emma
Emma Thatcher
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Prosperity
Maggie Warren
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
Caught Short
Marie Jones
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood
Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
Devenir Marilyn
The Big Parade of Comedy
Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)
Tugboat Annie
Annie
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Tillie Banks
Christopher Bean
Abby
Reducing
Marie Truffle
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
Anna Christie
Marthy Owens
Broadway to Hollywood
Vaudeville Act (archive footage)
The Christmas Party
Herself (uncredited)
The Girl Said No
Hettie Brown
The Divine Lady
Mrs. Hart
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Self (archive footage)
Politics
Hattie Burns
Chasing Rainbows
Bonnie
Let Us Be Gay
Mrs. Bouccicault
The March of Time
Self - Old Timer Sequence