Word: dressier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constable's head if it would help her get a vote. In the U. S., Mrs. Belmont's fight for equal suffrage took place on many fronts. She badgered Congressmen. She wrote a propagandist operetta which was produced at the old Waldorf in 1916 with Marie Dressier in the cast. Just as she had nudged Mrs. Astor out of Manhattan's social leadership, so did she outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt in the militancy of her agitation for woman's suffrage. And just as she had built her palaces, she gave $100,600 for the National Woman...
...comic strip joke about a mother-in-law, multiplied it by two, added a bank failure, four platitudes about the silver lining, and a vaudeville fox terrier you would have all the ingredients of Prosperity except the one which makes it human and amusing. This ingredient is Marie Dressier, who always impersonates grunting, sympathetic, noisy, witty, violent, immensely courageous old ladies but somehow manages to do it with enough vitality to make them seem alive. This time she is Maggie Warren, a grizzled widow who runs her husband's bank until the day her son gets married, when...
...French peasant girl who takes up with a thief and turns prostitute to support her son. Like Helen Hayes, Lynn Fontanne made her debut in cinema last year and her performance in The Guardsman was one of three nominated for the Academy's award. The third was aged Marie Dressier, who won last year and whose acting in Emma ranked second to Helen Hayes's in the 850 Academy members' vote this year...
...Marie Dressier (MGM) 2) Janet Gaynor (Fox) 3) Joan Crawford (MGM) 4) Charles Farrell (Fox) 5) Greta Garbo (MGM) 6) Norma Shearer (MGM) 7) Wallace Beery (MGM) 8) Clark Gable (MGM) 9) Will Rogers (Fox) 10) Joe E. Brown (Warner...
Publishing last week first results of a questionnaire addressed to exhibitors. Motion Picture Herald revealed that the most valuable players were Marie Dressier, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo; Wallace Beery. Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Clark Gable, Wheeler & Woolsey. Producers lost most of their money on program pictures?pictures of standard length (55 to 60 min.) meant to fit in on any theatre program...