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Marie Dressler
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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
Copyright Comedies and More
Becoming Marilyn
That's Entertainment! III
Showbiz Ballyhoo
That's Entertainment, Part II
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Big Parade of Comedy
Anniversary
All in Good Fun
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Dinner at Eight
Tugboat Annie
Going Hollywood
Broadway to Hollywood
Christopher Bean
Emma
Prosperity
Politics
Reducing
The Christmas Party
Anna Christie
Min and Bill
The March of Time
Let Us Be Gay
Chasing Rainbows
One Romantic Night