1868-11-09 ( 156 years old ) in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
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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.
Movies
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
1993-02-06
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975-08-06
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961-12-31
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942-01-01
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940-07-31
Dinner at Eight
1933-12-22
Going Hollywood
1933-12-22
Christopher Bean
1933-11-17
Broadway to Hollywood
1933-09-15
Tugboat Annie
1933-08-04
Prosperity
1932-11-18
Emma
1932-01-02
The Christmas Party
1931-12-17
Politics
1931-02-26
Reducing
1931-01-03
Min and Bill
1930-11-29
The March of Time
1930-09-01
Let Us Be Gay
1930-07-11
Caught Short
1930-05-10
One Romantic Night
1930-04-30
The Girl Said No
1930-03-15
Anna Christie
1930-02-21
Chasing Rainbows
1930-01-10
The Vagabond Lover
1929-12-01
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929-11-23
Dangerous Females
1929-11-16
The Divine Lady
1928-12-26
The Patsy
1928-04-22
Bringing Up Father
1928-03-18
Breakfast at Sunrise
1927-10-23
The Joy Girl
1927-09-03
The Callahans and the Murphys
1927-06-18
The Scrub Lady
1917-12-09
Tillie Wakes Up
1917-01-29
Tillie's Tomato Surprise
1915-09-27
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914-12-21
Actors' Fund Field Day
1910-10-11
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