Marie Dressler
33 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 9, 1868
- Died
- Jul 28, 1934 (age 65)
- Place of birth
- Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as
- Leila Marie Koerber · Марі Дресслер
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Known for
Marie Dressler: movies and TV shows
Acting (33)
- 2022 Becoming Marilyn
as (archive footage)
- 2022 Copyright Comedies and More
as Archive Footage, "Tillie’s Tomato Surprise"
- 1994 That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)
- 1955 All in Good Fun
as Archive Footage
- 1933 Dinner at Eight
as Carlotta Vance
- 1933 Christopher Bean
as Abby
- 1933 Broadway to Hollywood
as Vaudeville Act (archive footage)
- 1933 Tugboat Annie
as Annie
- 1932 Prosperity
as Maggie Warren
- 1932 Emma
as Emma Thatcher
- 1931 Politics
as Hattie Burns
- 1931 Reducing
as Marie Truffle
- 1930 Min and Bill
as Min Divot
- 1930 Let Us Be Gay
as Mrs. Bouccicault
- 1930 Caught Short
as Marie Jones
- 1930 One Romantic Night
as Princess Beatrice
- 1930 The Girl Said No
as Hettie Brown
- 1930 Anna Christie
as Marthy Owens
- 1930 Chasing Rainbows
as Bonnie
- 1929 The Vagabond Lover
as Ethel Bertha Whitehall
- 1929 Dangerous Females
as Sarah Bascom
- 1928 The Divine Lady
as Mrs. Hart
- 1928 The Patsy
as Ma Harrington
- 1928 Bringing Up Father
as Annie Moore
- 1927 Breakfast at Sunrise
as Queen
- 1927 The Joy Girl
as Mrs. Heath
- 1927 The Callahans and the Murphys
as Mrs. Callahan
- 1917 The Scrub Lady
as Tilly
- 1917 Tillie Wakes Up
as Tillie Tinkelpaw
- 1915 Tillie's Tomato Surprise
as Tillie Todd
- 1914 Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Tillie Banks
Talk shows and appearances (13)
- 1982
- 1975
- 1972
- 1963
- 1955 MGM Parade
1 episode
- 1945
- 1942
- 1940
- 1933
- 1931
- 1930
- 1929
- 1910