Middle-aged widow Hattie Burns becomes fed up when local small-town Read More »
Tag Archives: Marie Dressler
Reducing (1931) Charles Reisner, Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page
It’s all aboard for comedy as down-and-out Marie Truffle (Marie Dressler) and her rambunctious brood Read More »
Min and Bill (1930) George W. Hill, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan
Min owns the waterfront hotel where Bill, the captain of a fishing boat, lives. Read More »
Prosperity (1932) Sam Wood, Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page
In 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Read More »
The Patsy (1928) King Vidor, Marion Davies
An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her elder sister’s boyfriend tries to make him notice her. Read More »
Tugboat Annie (1933) Mervyn LeRoy
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Read More »
Dinner at Eight (1933) George Cukor, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Read More »
Let Us Be Gay (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler
Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Read More »
Emma (1932) Clarence Brown, Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Comedy, Drama, Romance
When their mother dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher who has been the nanny to his 3 children but now has an infant to care for. Read More »