When you saw her, you would not fail to remember her. Notwithstanding her age and weight, she became one of the top film industry draws of the sound period. She was 14 when she joined an auditorium gathering and she proceeded to deal with stage and in light drama. By 1892, she was on Broadway and she later turned into a star comedienne on the vaudeville circuit. In 1910, she had a hit with 'Tillie's Nightmare' which Mack Sennett adjusted to film as Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) with Charles Chaplin. Marie took front and center attention over a youthful Chaplin, however her movie profession never took off and by 1918, she was out of movies and unemployed. Her job in the theme young ladies' strike of 1917 had her boycotted from the theaters. In 1927, MGM screenwriter Frances Marion got her a little part in The Joy Girl (1927) and afterward a co-featuring lead with Polly Moran in The Callahans and the Murphys (1927) (which was suddenly removed from flow on account of complaints of Irish-American gatherings over its portrayal of gin-chugging Irish). Her vocation slowed down and the 59-year old entertainer observed herself to be as of now not popular. In the last part of the 1920s she had been generally neglected and diminished to approach neediness. Regardless of her last film being a monetary calamity, Irving Thalberg, fairly unimaginably, detected her true still up in the air to re-incorporate her into a star. It was a sluggish return in films however her notoriety kept on developing. However, it was sound that made her a star once more. Anna Christie (1930) was the film where Garbo talks, yet everybody saw Marie as Marthy. In a time of Harlow, Garbo and Crawford, it was plain old Marie Dressler that won the pined for exhibitor's survey as the most well known entertainer for three sequential years. In one more film from that very year, Min and Bill (1930) she got a best entertainer Oscar for her sensational exhibition. She got one more Academy Award assignment for Emma (1932). She had more accomplishment with Dinner at Eight (1933) and Tugboat Annie (1933). In 1934, disease asserted her life.
Dressler supposedly had one youngster, a little girl who kicked the bucket in outset. No subtleties exist.
Lived with James Dalton from 1914 until his passing
She shows up as a person in the melodic play "In Hell with Harlow" by Paul L. Williams.
Apparently experienced anxiety in front of large audiences all through her profession.
As per most evaluation sources and the record concerning the historical backdrop of the house, Dressler was brought into the world in 1868. Different sources have customarily refered to 1869. The year 1871 is allowed as her time of birth on her tombstone in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California).
Life story in's: "Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 141-143. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
Dressler won the fourth Academy Award for Best Actress (for her intense presentation in the emotional film Min and Bill (1930)) and got the statuette at the function hung on November 10, 1931, the day after her 63rd birthday.
Was named the top film industry star of 1933 by the Motion Picture Herald, in view of a yearly survey of exhibitors concerning the drawing force of famous actors in the cinema world led by Quigley Publications.
She is celebrated on a 2008 Canadian postage stamp, one of four stamps regarding the accomplishments of Canadians in Hollywood. Different stamps portray Norma Shearer, Chief Dan George, and Raymond Burr.
Continuously credited her old buddy, screenwriter Frances Marion, with in a real sense saving her life. After much time spent attempting to observe her, Marion reached Dressler about a significant job in The Callahans and the Murphys (1927). Dressler allegedly thought about self destruction yet different sources express that, truth be told, she was thinking about filling in as a servant at a Long Island domain. The Callahans and the Murphys (1927) denoted an individual and expert rebound for her. It carried her to MGM, where she would stay a significant star until her passing.
Dressler's dad was Alexander Rudolph Koerber, a German-conceived previous official in the Crimean War. Her mom was Anna "Annie" Henderson. She had a senior sister, Bonita Louise Koerber (1864-1939) marry writer Richard Ganthony, and lived in Richmond, Surrey, England. The family inhabited 212 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. The house is a verifiable site and exhibition hall.
Profiled in book "Amusing Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. [1999]
Exchange paper articles in November 1933 expressed that Dressler's next film would be "Mrs. Van Kleek", a South Seas story. The film was rarely made; previously weak, Dressler kicked the bucket the next year from disease at 65 years old.
Of the initial four Academy Awards for Best Actress, after Janet Gaynor, the accompanying three back to back champs were all Canadian-conceived Americans: Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, and Dressler. No Canadian-conceived entertainer has won an Oscar as Best Actress since Dressler. Canadian-conceived New Zealand-raised Anna Paquin won the 1993 Best Supporting Actress Award, nonetheless, for The Piano (1993).
In 1919, during the Actors' Equity strike in New York City, the Chorus Equity Association was framed and casted a ballot Dressler its first president. Dressler was boycotted by the theater creation organizations because of her solid position. Dressler thought that it is hard to look for employment during the 1920s. She left New York for Hollywood looking for work in films.
Dressler left a home worth $310,000, the mass left to her more seasoned sister, Bonita. Dressler left her 1931 vehicle and $35,000 in her will to her house keeper of twenty years, Mamie Cox, and $15,000 to Cox's significant other Jerry, who had filled in as Dressler's steward for a very long time. The two utilized the assets to open the Cocoanut Grove dance club in Savannah, Georgia, in 1936, named after the club in Los Angeles. Dressler left $3,000 to individual film entertainer Claire Du Brey.
In 1910, Dressler scored her most noteworthy Broadway hit with "Tillie's Nightmare", which four years after the fact filled in as the premise of her first movie, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914).
The Canadian-based Marie Dressler Foundation, which incorporates Marie Dressler House, has a yearly Vintage Film Festival.
Overview
Born November 9, 1868 in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Died July 28, 1934 in Santa Barbara, California, USA (cancer)
Birth Name Leila Marie Koerber
Height 5' 7" (1.7 m)
List Of Marie Dressler Movies
- The Late Christopher Bean
- Dinner at Eight
- Tugboat Annie
- Prosperity
- Emma
- The Christmas Party (Short)
- Politics
- Reducing
- Min and Bill
- Let Us Be Gay
- Caught Short
- One Romantic Night
- The Girl Said No
- Anna Christie
- Chasing Rainbows
- The Vagabond Lover
- Dangerous Females (Short)
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- The Divine Lady
- Bringing Up Father
- The Politic Flapper
- Breakfast at Sunrise
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