Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Leila Marie Koerber , Марі Дресслер
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
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Movie Involvements: 17
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Most Famous Work
Anna Christie
(1930) Marthy OwensThat's Entertainment! III
(1994) (archive footage)That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976) (archive footage)Hollywood My Home Town
(1965) Self (archive footage)The Divine Lady
(1929) Mrs. HartBroadway to Hollywood
(1933) Vaudeville Act (archive footage)Hollywood: The Dream Factory
(1972) Self (archive footage)Hollywood Without Make-Up
(1963) Self (archive footage)Acting
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2022 | N/A | |
1994 | (archive footage) | |
1993 | Herself (archive footage) | |
1976 | (archive footage) | |
1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
1972 | Self (archive footage) | |
1965 | Self (archive footage) | |
1964 | (archive footage) | |
1963 | Self (archive footage) | |
1961 | Carlotta Vance (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
1945 | Self (archive footage) | |
1942 | Self (archive footage) | |
1940 | Self (archive footage) | |
1933 | Carlotta Vance | |
Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) | ||
Abby | ||
Vaudeville Act (archive footage) | ||
Annie | ||
1932 | Maggie Warren | |
Emma Thatcher | ||
1931 | Herself (uncredited) | |
Hattie Burns | ||
Marie Truffle | ||
1930 | Min Divot | |
Self - Old Timer Sequence | ||
Mrs. Bouccicault | ||
Marie Jones | ||
Princess Beatrice | ||
Hettie Brown | ||
Marthy Owens | ||
Bonnie | ||
1929 | Ethel Whitehall | |
Self | ||
Sarah Bascom | ||
Mrs. Hart | ||
1928 | Ma Harrington | |
Annie Moore | ||
1927 | Queen | |
Mrs. Heath | ||
N/A | ||
1917 | Tillie Tinkelpaw | |
1915 | N/A | |
1914 | Tillie Banks | |
1910 | Self | |
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |