Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler ( born November 9, 1868 in Cobourg, Ontario, † July 28, 1934 in Santa Barbara, California; actually Leila Marie Koerber ) was a Canadian actress.
Life
Dressler began her career in the theater at the age of 14 years. In 1892 it was first played on Broadway and in the following years a popular vaudeville star.
In 1914 she made her first appearance in the film comedy Tillie's troubled romance alongside Charles Chaplin. After she had been involved as a union leader during a strike by stagehands, she was put on a blacklist and for years had large areas of deprivation. Your good friend, the screenwriter Frances Marion, cared for them during the years and gave her a contract in 1927 with the studio the MGM. First Dressler was used as a feisty older lady like as landlady, ie landlord. The actress Polly Moran she entered many stripes on together and formed a popular screen couple. The first successes in The Patsy and The uncrowned queen they made known. However, the breakthrough came in 1930 when she took over the role of an embittered old prostitutes in Greta Garbo talkie debut Anna Christie. In the same year she turned the alien mothership next to Wallace Beery, although it was a good 20 years younger than her, in the film, however, played her husband. The non-resident parent was the most financially successful of the year strips and Dressler was elected the same year to the most bankable movie star. They played from there only in prestige productions and became one of the most popular actresses in the United States. At the Academy Awards in 1931 Dressler was awarded the Oscar for best actress. For Emma, the pearl she received on the Academy Awards 1932 again a nomination in this category. On August 7, 1933, she was on the cover of TIME magazine. In the same year she played in an All - Star Cast opposite John Barrymore, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery in Dinner at Eight, the film adaptation of a hit Broadway play by George S. Kaufmann and Edna Ferber. Tugboat Annie from the same year, which brought them together again with Wallace Beery, was one of the most successful films of the year for the studio.
Beginning of 1934, a deadly disease she was diagnosed with. Louis B. Mayer gave her shortly before her death, a new, financially lucrative contract to help their morale.
She was married from 1900 to 1906 with George Hoppert and had a daughter.
Filmography (selection)
Book
- Portrait: Marie Dressler: The serious actress. In: Paul Werner, Uta van Steen: Rebel in Hollywood. 13 portraits of stubbornness. Tende, Frankfurt am Main, among other things, 1986, ISBN 3-88633-061-3, pp. 75-90.