Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler (1868–1934) was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress whose comic performances brought her late-career film stardom. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Min and Bill (1930).

Min and Bill: A 1930 drama starring Marie Dressler as a tough boardinghouse keeper who raises an orphaned girl. Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this performance.
Cobourg: A town on Lake Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Dressler was born in Cobourg in 1868.
Polly Moran: An American comic actress who frequently played opposite Marie Dressler in films of the late 1920s and 1930s. Their onscreen partnership turned quarrelsome neighbor characters into a recurring comedy formula.
Academy Award for Best Actress: An annual Academy Award recognizing a leading performance by an actress in a film. Dressler won the award for Min and Bill at the 1931 ceremony.
Dinner at Eight: A 1933 comedy-drama directed by George Cukor and adapted from a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Dressler’s performance as Carlotta Vance became one of her best-known late-career roles.
Marie Dressler's stage career: The theatrical career of Marie Dressler, spanning touring companies, vaudeville, and Broadway. Decades on stage shaped the comic timing she brought to films.
Wallace Beery: An American film actor whose career ranged from silent villains to sound-era character roles. Beery co-starred with Dressler in Min and Bill.
Hollywood Walk of Fame: A landmark in Hollywood, Los Angeles, honoring achievements in entertainment with stars embedded in its sidewalks. Dressler received a posthumous star honoring her contributions to motion pictures.
Tugboat Annie: A 1933 comedy-drama starring Marie Dressler as a formidable tugboat captain in Puget Sound. The title role drew on Dressler’s gift for forceful comic characters.
George W. Lederer: An American theatrical producer and director active on Broadway in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lederer gave Dressler a prominent role in the Broadway musical The Lady Slavey.

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Mabel NormandRelated: Dressler and Normand shared the ensemble cast of the feature comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance.