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Marie Dressler 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. In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931.
Birth Name
Leila Marie Koerber
Born
Monday, 09 November 1868
Died
Saturday, 28 July 1934
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One | (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass | (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Garbo | Marthy Owens | 2005 |
| Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood | (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood | Self | 2000 |
| That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) / Performer in Clip from 'Hollywood Revue of 1929' | 1994 |
| Zelig | Self | 1983 |
| America at the Movies | Carlotta Vance | 1976 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) / Carlotta Vance | 1976 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One | (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass | (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Garbo | Marthy Owens | 2005 |
| Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood | (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood | Self | 2000 |
| That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) / Performer in Clip from 'Hollywood Revue of 1929' | 1994 |
| Zelig | Self | 1983 |
| America at the Movies | Carlotta Vance | 1976 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) / Carlotta Vance | 1976 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood Babylon | (archive footage) | 1972 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
| The Big Parade of Comedy | Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' / (archive footage) | 1964 |
| The Judy Garland Show | Self | 1963 |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Herself | 1963 |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Carlotta Vance | 1961 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Self | 1961 |
| All in Good Fun | (archive footage) | 1955 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Min / Carlotta Vane | 1948 |
| Gaslight Follies | Self | 1945 |
| Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary | Self | 1945 |
| Wilson | Marie Dressler - at WWI Rally | 1944 |
| Some of the Best | Min / Annie Brennan / Carlotta Vance | 1944 |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | (archive footage) | 1940 |
| The Movies March On | Self (segment "Tillie's Punctured Romance") | 1939 |
| Movie Memories #2 | Self | 1934 |
| Going Hollywood | Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) / Self | 1933 |
| Christopher Bean | Abby | 1933 |
| Broadway to Hollywood | Vaudeville Act (archive footage) / Self | 1933 |
| Dinner at Eight | Carlotta Vance | 1933 |
| Tugboat Annie | Annie | 1933 |
| Prosperity | Maggie Warren | 1932 |
| Emma | Emma / Emma Thatcher Smith | 1932 |
| The Christmas Party | Marie Dressler | 1931 |
| Politics | Hattie Burns | 1931 |
| Reducing | Marie Truffle | 1931 |
| Min and Bill | Min / Min Divot | 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 |
| Chasing Rainbows | Bonnie | 1930 |
| Anna Christie | Marthy / Marthy Owens | 1930 |
| The Vagabond Lover | Ethel Bertha Whitehall / Ethel Whitehall | 1929 |
| The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Marie Dressler / Self | 1929 |
| The Divine Lady | Mrs. Hart | 1928 |
| Bringing Up Father | Annie Moore | 1928 |
| The Patsy | Ma Harrington | 1928 |
| Breakfast at Sunrise | Queen | 1927 |
| The Joy Girl | Mrs. Heath | 1927 |
| The Callahans and the Murphys | Mrs. Callahan | 1927 |
| Tillie Wakes Up | Tillie Tinkelpaw | 1917 |
| Tillie's Tomato Surprise | Tillie Todd | 1915 |
| Tillie's Punctured Romance | Tillie / Tillie Banks | 1914 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1932 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1931 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Won |
