- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 9, 1868
- Place of Birth
- Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- July 28, 1934
Marie Dressler
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 …
Filmography
movieBecoming Marilyn
2022 · (archive footage)
Copyright Comedies and More
movieCopyright Comedies and More
2022 · Archive Footage, "Tillie’s Tomato Surprise"
movieThat's Entertainment! III
1994 · (archive footage)
movie100 Years at the Movies
1994 · Self (archive footage)
movieShowbiz Ballyhoo
1982 · Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
movieBob Hope's World of Comedy
1976 · Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
movieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
movieBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
movieHollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)
Anniversary
movieAnniversary
1963 · Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
tvMGM Parade
1955 · self
movieAll in Good Fun
1955 · Archive Footage
movieScreen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
1945 · Self (archive footage)
movieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self (archive footage)
movieCavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Self (archive footage)
movieDinner at Eight
1933 · Carlotta Vance
movieGoing Hollywood
1933 · Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
movieChristopher Bean
1933 · Abby
movieBroadway to Hollywood
1933 · Vaudeville Act (archive footage)
movieTugboat Annie
1933 · Annie
movieProsperity
1932 · Maggie Warren
movieEmma
1932 · Emma Thatcher
movieThe Christmas Party
1931 · Herself (uncredited)
moviePolitics
1931 · Hattie Burns
movieReducing
1931 · Marie Truffle
movieMin and Bill
1930 · Min Divot
movieThe March of Time
1930 · Self - Old Timer Sequence
movieLet Us Be Gay
1930 · Mrs. Bouccicault
movieCaught Short
1930 · Marie Jones
movieOne Romantic Night
1930 · Princess Beatrice
movieThe Girl Said No
1930 · Hettie Brown
movieAnna Christie
1930 · Marthy Owens
movieChasing Rainbows
1930 · Bonnie
movieThe Vagabond Lover
1929 · Ethel Bertha Whitehall
movieThe Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929 · Self
movieDangerous Females
1929 · Sarah Bascom
movieThe Divine Lady
1928 · Mrs. Hart
movieThe Patsy
1928 · Ma Harrington
movieBringing Up Father
1928 · Annie Moore
movieBreakfast at Sunrise
1927 · Queen
movieThe Joy Girl
1927 · Mrs. Heath
movieThe Callahans and the Murphys
1927 · Mrs. Callahan
The Scrub Lady
movieThe Scrub Lady
1917 · Tilly
Tillie Wakes Up
movieTillie Wakes Up
1917 · Tillie Tinkelpaw
movieTillie's Tomato Surprise
1915 · Tillie Todd
movieTillie's Punctured Romance
1914 · Tillie Banks
Actors' Fund Field Day
movieActors' Fund Field Day
1910 · Self