Marie Dressler
Acting
Born 1868-11-09
Died 1934-07-28
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
47 credits
Academy Awards 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 1 nominated
- 1932 Best Actress Nominated Emma
- 1931 Best Actress Won Min and Bill
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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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.
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Filmography
MGM Parade
Dinner at Eight
That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment, Part II
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Becoming Marilyn
Caught Short
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Tugboat Annie
Tillie's Punctured Romance
The Big Parade of Comedy
Anna Christie
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Dangerous Females
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
The Christmas Party
The Patsy
The Divine Lady
Anniversary
The Girl Said No
Reducing
Emma
Prosperity
Let Us Be Gay
Actors' Fund Field Day
Going Hollywood
Min and Bill
Tillie Wakes Up
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Broadway to Hollywood
Politics
Copyright Comedies and More
The Joy Girl
The March of Time
Christopher Bean
Showbiz Ballyhoo
The Vagabond Lover
Breakfast at Sunrise
Chasing Rainbows
One Romantic Night
The Callahans and the Murphys
Bringing Up Father
Tillie's Tomato Surprise
All in Good Fun
The Scrub Lady
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
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