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Best acting (female) Marie Dressier (Min and Bill...
Seven years ago, Marie Dressier (born Lelia Koerber) offered to play in vaudeville for $2,000 a week, could find no takers. She was ready to give up acting to try running a hotel in Paris when Director Allan Dwan offered her a job in Hollywood. The part that made her a cinema star, as she had been a stage star 25 years before,* came later-a bit in Anna Christie. Said Cinemactress Dressier: "They make you a star and then you starve. All I want is a small part to come in and upset the plot...
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...
Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...