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  Marie Dressler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie Dressler (born November 9, 1869; died July 28, 1934) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian actress.
Dressler followed these successes with more hits in 1933 (like the wonderful comedy Dinner at Eight, in which she played an aging and poor former stage actress) and made the cover of the August 7, 1933 issue of Time magazine.
Marie Dressler died in Santa Barbara, California and is interred in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler, Ethel Barrymore and others during the 1919 strike The Chorus Equity Association was created on August 12, 1919 in New York City, New York during the strike by the Actors Equity Association.
Marie Dressler (born November 9, 1868; died July 28, 1934) was a Canadian actress.
With that film, Dressler demonstrated her profound generosity to other performers: Dressler personally insisted that her studio bosses cast a friend of hers and then largely unknown young actor,Richard Cromwell, in the lead opposite her--it was a break that helped launch his career.
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 Marie Dressler - Northern Stars
Marie was a fast learner, and seeing what other major stars were doing, notably her friend Mary Pickford who had cofounded United Artists, she decided to form own production company in 1917.
Marie was 55 and for all intents and purposes her career was over, so a memoir seemed appropriate.
Although Marie Dressler always considered herself to be an ugly duckling, as the title of her first memoir clearly shows, she probably never realized how beautiful she was to her large and loyal audience.
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 Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary is Miriam in the Hebrew and Arabic languages.
Mary is also used as an affectionate slang term for a gay man in the United States.
Mary is a construct introduced by Jackson, F. (1982), "Epiphenomenal Qualia", Philosophical Quarterly, 32, to argue issues of physicalism.
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 Marie Dressler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dressler appeared in two more "Tillie" sequels plus othercomedies until 1918 when she returned to work in vaudeville.
Dressler followed these successes with more hits in 1933 but her career came to anabrupt end when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Marie Dressler died in Santa Barbara,California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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 Marie Dressler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dressler appeared in two more "Tillie" plus other comedies until 1918 when she returned to work in
In 1927 after she had been secretly fllisted the theater production companies due to her stance in a labor dispute a friend MGM studios worked to get her a and it would turn out to be Canadian who gave her the opportunity to to motion pictures.
Dressler followed these successes with more hits 1933 but her career came to an end when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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 Dressler
Marie Dressler (Leila Marie Koreber) (Nov. 9,1869- July 28,1934), the daughter of a music teacher, was born in Ontario.
Marie's stage career declined in the early twenties as the result of a reprisal against the union leaders from theater managers led by Albee.
Frances Marion, a MGM screenwriter Marie had earlier helped with her career and nursed while she was sick, repaid Marie by writing a film script called The Callahans and the Murphys specifically for Marie in 1927.
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Marie found a niche in comic opera and after she had established herself as a valued comedian able to sing well, dance, turn somersaults and take falls, she rose to leading roles in musical comedies and revues and headliner status in vaudeville.
In the bright spotlight of publicity, Marie announced all her enthusiasms, broke contracts, sued adversaries, worked hard for the rights of performers—including the lowly, ill-paid chorus girls, even got into a brawl or two.
But Marie kept her personal life in a shade of lies, half truths and evasions.
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 © Marie Dressler, Silent and Early Sound Film Actress - goldensilents.com
Marie Dressler was born Leila Marie Koerber in Ontario, Canada and became interested in singing and acting at a young age.
Marie received top billing in that film over her co-star, a young Charles Chaplin.
Marie was married once and had a daughter who died in infancy.
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 D2 Press- Cool Dead People - Suzanne Nielsen on Maire Dressler
Marie was a woman of substance, a woman with tongue in cheek and check in hand.
Marie involved herself in political affairs, making sure the actors union treated her peers fairly and in doing so, she may have been limiting her own abilities in front of the camera yet she persevered and made several come-backs before her spot light dimmed.
Marie's wide open-mouthed smile, guttural, contagious laugh, and her ability to poke fun at herself all the while taking herself seriously were some of the reasons she was adored by many.
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 Marie Dressler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marie Dressler (November 9, EHandler: no quick summary.
Dressler was nominated again for Best Actress for her 1932 role as Emma Emma quick summary:
Each year the Marie Dressler Film Festival is held in her home town of Cobourg, EHandler: no quick summary.
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 Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marie Dressler: The Unlikeliest Star is primarily a biography, much needed for so elusive a subject, but not especially illuminating to students of film.
Mary Pickford's father left the family when she was three and died an alcoholic when she was six; she was brought up and driven by a mother whose ambitions matched and motivated her own.
The only reference to Dressler in Pickford directly refers to these fund drives, whereas Marie Dressler makes several references to Pickford, claiming that the two were friends, a contention not altogether borne out by Pickford's mildly disparaging remarks in her autobiographical Sunshine and Shadow.
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 Bio for Marie Dressler on MSN Movies
Actress Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber) was a leading American comedienne during the silent era.
Dressler debuted onscreen opposite Charlie Chaplin in the silent feature Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), based on one of her stage vehicles; she appeared in two more "Tillie" films plus a couple of other comedies, then after 1918 went almost a decade without appearing onscreen; she remained mainly a vaudeville and musical comedy star.
Soon Dressler was a popular star, her appeal increased by comedies in which she co-starred with Polly Moran.
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 Marie Dressler Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dressler appeared sporadically in silent films thereafter but did not have significant success.
Dressler gained film stardom and immense popularity, however, with several commanding yet warm performances in the early 1930s as both understanding, faded dowagers ("Dinner at Eight" 1933, "Emma" 1932) and slovenly but good-hearted proletarian types ("Tugboat Annie" 1933).
Her partner in the latter was her most frequent male co-star, Wallace Beery, with whom she could easily keep up in the roughhousing department, Dressler was also paired with neurasthenic comedian Polly Moran for knockabout antics in films including "Caught Short" (1930), "Reducing" (1931) and "Prosperity" (1932).
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 Chorus Equity Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie Dressler, Ethel Barrymore and others during the 1919 strike
After Florenz Ziegfeld revealed that he was joining the Producing Managers' Association, with the help of a substantial donation from superstar actress and former chorus girl Lillian Russell, the chorus girls in his Ziegfeld Follies created their own union.
Marie Dressler, another former chorus girl who had gone on to be a major star on the stage, was elected the association's first president.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chorus_Equity_Association   (182 words)

  
 Marie Dressler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
160x181px Marie Dressler (November 9, 1868 - July 28, 1934) was a Canadian actress.
Dressler followed these successes with more hits in 1933 and made the cover of the August 7, 1933 issue of Time magazine.
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 Book reviews
The prologue says what Marie Dressler was all about, really all about, and her story which follows is one of the most enjoyable I've ever read.
Marie Dressler was born Leila Maria Koerber in 1871 in the little town of Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.
Marie Dressler went in for rough and tumble humour on the stage but her feet were firmly on the ground as she used her talent and guided her career.
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 Marie dressler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Start the Marie dressler article or add a request for it.
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 Silent Film Sources Review
Dressler plays Tillie as big and homely, but the comedienne has excellent timing and is light on her feet.
Dressler handles this sequence beautifully, guzzling her drink, only to spray it over Chaplin, followed by a success of exaggerated takes, and an extended drunk scene.
Dressler is fully Chaplin's equal at scene stealing, and the otherwise delightful Mabel Normand is overshadowed.
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 LIBERTAS » Blog Archive » Marie Dressler & Dinner at Eight on DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marie Dressler was born in 1869 and a major Broadway and vaudeville star in both drama and comedy when she started making films in 1914, debuting in a Charlie Chaplin film.
Dressler jumped to the screen, and became a phenomenal success, WHEN SHE WAS SIXTY.
One of these narratives he describes his relationship with Marie Dressler in detail and how he cried the day she died, as if he lost his own mother.
www.libertyfilmfestival.com /libertas/index.php?p=845   (1465 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dinner at Eight (1934) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dressler was cast against type in the sort of role Ava Gardner took after she'd worked her way through an ocean of booze and an arena full of matadors.
Marie Dressler is excellent and is fun to watch, though Harlow has always gotten all the raves; she's good but just a tad too over the top for me with her whiney voice, platinum hair, and outrageous costumes.
Marie Dressler mugs, pouts and manipulates her rubber face creating an hilarious portrayal of an over the hill star.
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 University Press of Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She was homely, overweight, and over the hill, but there was a time when Marie Dressler outdrew such cinema sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow.
Dressler was an astute observer of public mood and taste.
When she was lucky enough to find work in the newly minted Hollywood talkies, she grabbed the brass ring with fierce enthusiasm, even making three films in the year before her death, when she was so sick she had to rest between scenes on a sofa just out of camera range.
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 Marie Dressler - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
That Canadian was MGM studio boss Louis_B._Mayer who referred to her as ''the most adored person ever to set foot in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio''.
For her starring portrayal in ''Min_and_Bill'' she won the 1931 Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress and was nominated again for Best Actress for her 1932 role in ''Emma''.
Marie Dressler died in Santa_Barbara,_California and was interred in the Forest_Lawn_Memorial_Park_Cemetery in Glendale,_California.
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 Amazon.com: Marie Dressler: The Unlikeliest Star: Books: Betty Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marie Dressler was overweight and older than 60 when she made the most spectacular comeback of her roller-coaster career, outshining Greta Garbo in the 1930 film Anna Christie.
Toronto Globe feature writer/reporter Lee's biography of actress Dressler gives the reader a vivid view of the life of her subject and a social history of theater and film in the early 20th century.
Lee uses personal anecdotes from Dressler's two autobiographies and the unpublished manuscript of Claire Dunphy, an actress who was Dressler's closest companion at the end of her life, to illustrate the story of an actress and the history of American theater and film from 1880 until 1934, when Dressler died of cancer.
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 Marie Dressler. Biografia, filmografia y fotos - El Criticon
Rebautizada en homenaje a su tía como Marie Dressler, la actriz de origen canadiense logró debutar en Broadway a los 22 años, alcanzando el estrellato escénico gracias a su talento para las obras cómicas, especialmente gracias a su encarnación desde 1909 en el personaje que le daría la fama, Tillie Blobb.
Marie, que logró con su reinvidicación ayudar a crear el "Actor's Equity Union", entró en un período de inestabilidad emocional, compartido por su pareja, James Dalton, y exorcizó sus ansias profesionales y estado depresivo escribiendo su autobiografía, "The Life Story of an Ugly Ducking".
Marie Dressler contaba con 64 años de edad.
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 Grave Hunter finds Marie Dressler burial place   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1910, she had a hit with "Tillie's Nightmare" which Mack Sennett adapted to film in 1914 as "Tillie's Punctured Romance" with Charles Chaplin.
Marie took top billing over a young Chaplin, but her film career never took off and by 1918, she was out of films and out of work.
Her role in the chorus girls' strike of 1917 had her fllisted from the theaters.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She came then as Marie Dressler to star in a play at the old Marvin Theater in February 1901.
The play, a farce comedy, was "Miss Prinnt." As the star she was a woman newspaper publisher and the story line dealt with some of her experiences in an eastern city, where her "paper" was published.
Miss Dressler undoubtedly took a look at two places where she and her father lived during their residence in Findlay.
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