Marie Dressler
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 9, 1868, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- July 28, 1934
- Movies
- 45
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2022 | Becoming Marilyn | (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Copyright Comedies and More | Archive Footage, "Tillie’s Tomato Surprise" |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1982 | Showbiz Ballyhoo | Self (archive footage) |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) |
| 1972 | Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) |
| 1963 | Anniversary | Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited) |
| 1955 | All in Good Fun | Archive Footage |
| 1945 | Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary | Self (archive footage) |
| 1942 | Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) |
| 1940 | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) |
| 1933 | Dinner at Eight | Carlotta Vance |
| 1933 | Going Hollywood | Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) |
| 1933 | Christopher Bean | Abby |
| 1933 | Broadway to Hollywood | Vaudeville Act (archive footage) |
| 1933 | Tugboat Annie | Annie |
| 1932 | Prosperity | Maggie Warren |
| 1932 | Emma | Emma Thatcher |
| 1931 | The Christmas Party | Herself (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Politics | Hattie Burns |
| 1931 | Reducing | Marie Truffle |
| 1930 | Min and Bill | Min Divot |
| 1930 | The March of Time | Self - Old Timer Sequence |
| 1930 | Let Us Be Gay | Mrs. Bouccicault |
| 1930 | Caught Short | Marie Jones |
| 1930 | One Romantic Night | Princess Beatrice |
| 1930 | The Girl Said No | Hettie Brown |
| 1930 | Anna Christie | Marthy Owens |
| 1930 | Chasing Rainbows | Bonnie |
| 1929 | The Vagabond Lover | Ethel Bertha Whitehall |
| 1929 | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self |
| 1929 | Dangerous Females | Sarah Bascom |
| 1928 | The Divine Lady | Mrs. Hart |
| 1928 | The Patsy | Ma Harrington |
| 1928 | Bringing Up Father | Annie Moore |
| 1927 | Breakfast at Sunrise | Queen |
| 1927 | The Joy Girl | Mrs. Heath |
| 1927 | The Callahans and the Murphys | Mrs. Callahan |
| 1917 | The Scrub Lady | Tilly |
| 1917 | Tillie Wakes Up | Tillie Tinkelpaw |
| 1915 | Tillie's Tomato Surprise | Tillie Todd |
| 1914 | Tillie's Punctured Romance | Tillie Banks |
| 1910 | Actors' Fund Field Day | Self |
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