Word: dressier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams' Wife- They needed threshers on Jim Adams' Kansas farm when a city fellow named Peter Barrett (Eric Dressier) drifted in from the East. Jim Adams (Victor Kilian) liked the boy. took him into his family. Jim's wife Jennie (Sylvia Field) had already lost one baby, was expecting another. The first iS years of her life seemed a fair sample of what drudgery the rest of it was to be. She took a liking to Peter, too. So did a Negro named Joe. But Peter and his college book-learning and Jim Adams' dogged sense...
Cinemactress Dressier's producers have not let her starve, but they have given her major roles which often seem to be bit parts arduously expanded. In Min & Bill, she was proprietress of a low-grade boarding house. Wallace Beery was her star boarder. Largely slapstick comedy, the picture included a six-minute fight between Dressier and Beery in which Cinemactress Dressier threw things, among them a pottie, at Cinemactor Beery. Cinemactress Dressier enjoyed making the fight scenes. When she and Beery were too tired to go on, she rested in a portable bungalow dressing room which...
...itinerant actress for 40 years, Marie Dressier has gathered about her an amazingly large circle of acquaintances, celebrated and otherwise. General Pershing writes to her; the Prince of Wales calls on her when she visits London. Last week, the award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences came a day after her 60th birthday. Vastly pleased, she said: "I feel so important tonight that I think Mrs. Gann should give me her seat." Mrs. Gann stood up, Cinemactress Dressier sat down...
...last week's dinner, Jackie Cooper fell asleep on the bosom of Cinemactress Dressier. Director King Vidor drew a checkerboard on the tablecloth, played lump-sugar checkers with Cinemactress Eleanor Boardman (Mrs. King Vidor), beat her. Remarks...
...Children have no inhibitions or false ideas and people over 50 are usually sensible enough to have dropped them. ... I think if a picture or play was produced with only children ... or oldsters ... in the cast, it would be the surest safeguard . . . against the critics. . . ." So says seasoned Marie Dressier. Director Wesley Ruggles (Cimarron) shares her respect for young actors. In Are These Our Children? which he wrote himself, he takes a cast mostly under 18, guides them through a depressing epic of juvenile delinquency which ends at the electric chair. His story corresponds roughly to the one which...