Marie Dressler: A Biography, with a Listing of Major Stage Performances, a Filmography and a Discography
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Yesterday marked actress Marie Dressler's birthday. She was born on November 9, 1868 in Ontario, Canada, and died of cancer at the age of 65 in July 1934. During her lifetime, she moved from vaudeville to the legitimate stage to...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Today's Birthdays 11/09 1869 Marie Dressler is awesome. She gave one of the most aggressive Best Actress winning performances evah. If you haven't seen Min & Bill (1933), you must. You must, you must , you must . 1883 Edna May Oliver feisty character actress 1886 Ed Wynn Uncle Albert from Mary Poppins . He loves to laugh... long and loud and clear. Audiences were always ready to laugh along with...
Modelinia (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Image via TFS The timing is a little early for champers, but the bar will be under Shalom Harlow’s control for the presentation of John Patrick’s line Organic on September 10 from 10 a.m. to noon. Don’t expect Shalom to appear as herself, though. It seems she’s going with the speakeasy look, dressing as Greta Garbo as [...]
Trouble In Paradise (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in Tugboat Annie 1933 Herbert Marshall and Claudette Colbert in Secrets of a Secretary 1931 Lupe Velez and Lee Tracy in The Half Naked Truth 1933 Kay Francis and David Manners in Man Wanted 1932 John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth Century 1934 Carole Lombard and George Raft in Bolero 1934 Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own 1933 Charles Farrell...
One Mann's Opinion (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. Mark Twain I was speaking with a colleague this week and we got to talking about the four-letter word that is used as a crutch, an excuse and the stance of a victim – busy. Unless you are Barrack Obama, it’s safe to say that you’re only as busy as you need to be. If you work for a company and...
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009
"Singin' in the Rain" with Joan Crawford, Marie Dressler, Jack Benny, Buster Keaton, Marion Davies and more. The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an American musical film/comedy motion picture released in 1929. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,...
Comics Worth Reading (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
All this week, Turner Classic Movies is spotlighting Funny Ladies, female comedians that put the lie to the idea that women can’t be funny. The films range from true comedy classics to obscurities, but these are some of my favorites (all times Eastern): Dinner at EightBuy this DVD Dinner at Eight (April 21, 2:30 AM) — [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
An appearance on 'Britain's Got Talent' propels the 47-year-old singer onto the world stage - with nary a speck of glitz or glamour. Less than a week ago, she was just another 47-year-old Scottish virgin.
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
George Hurrell left a legacy of photography exemplifying what made the legends legendary.
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 03/22/2009
Kitty ( played by Jean Harlow ): "I was reading a book the other day..." Carlotta Vance ( played by Marie Dressler—making a full stop at the mere thought of this ): “Reading a book?????” – Dinner at Eight (1934), based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz, with additional dialogue by Donald Ogden Stewart...
Cinema Styles (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
Marie Dressler on the set of her penultimate film, Dinner at Eight , with Lionel Barrymore and below on the set of her last film, Christopher Bean , again with Lionel Barrymore. In Dinner with Eight she plays a high society dame, in Christopher Bean a maid. The latter is unavailable on DVD. It was based on the play The Late Christopher Bean by Sidney Howard who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for They...
West End Whingers (Free subscription) | 02/18/2009
It is with bowed heads and silly, sheepish expressions that the Whingers admitted to each other that neither had ever seen the original classic film, On The Waterfront. Despite growing up feasting on a veritable cornucopia old black and white movies they tended to dine from the menu of great divas. Andrew’s life and tastes were [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Every generation eventually discovers the great stories of early Hollywood, and while not every person is interested or susceptible, those who are should find their way to this five-hour 1992 documentary, originally...
Web News Site (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
I've been looking for this song, in video, for years -- and today I found it on YouTube, while flying from NY to SF on American Airlines flight 15. It was the closing song of the Hollywood Revue of 1929 , the first talking picture, which is actually in the public domain. I'd like to download an archive of this video in case it disappears from YouTube (one that was there about a week ago did disappear,...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
I've been looking for this song, in video, for years -- and today I found it on YouTube, while flying from NY to SF on American Airlines flight 15. It was the closing song of the Hollywood Revue of 1929 , the first talking picture, which is actually in the public domain. I'd like to download an archive of this video in case it disappears from YouTube (one that was there about a week ago did disappear,...
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