Word: dressler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1932 the Motion Picture Herald, Domesday Book of the cinema industry, has made annual surveys to find out which cinema stars make most money for the box office. Heading the list for the first two years was the late, leather-lunged Marie Dressler. In 1934 the late Will Rogers succeeded her. In 1935 pampered Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, then 6 years old, took first place. In 1936, for the first time, the Herald polled not only the U. S. but the box offices of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Again Shirley Temple topped the list. Last month the Herald...
...Savannah, Ga. Jerry R. & Mamie Steele Cox, Negro servants of the late Cinemactress Marie Dressier, used the $50,000 they got from Miss Dressler's will to open a combination night club and tourist camp called Cocoanut Grove, after the famed Los Angeles hotspot...
Steamboat Round the Bend (Fox). When Marie Dressler died last year, Will Rogers promptly remarked: "Isn't the talking screen a wonderful thing for those who love a person? It allows them to live on after they have gone." If, as newspapers politely suggested last week, it occurred to Fox executives that Will Rogers' death last fortnight made it hard to know what to do with his two unreleased, completed pictures, this statement served as a convenient hint. Forty-eight hours after the Rogers funeral in Hollywood the first of the two, Steamboat Round the Bend, made...
...motherly, soft-spoken Mrs. Wiggs, Pauline Lord makes a promising debut into talking pictures, and she will no doubt fit well into the Marie Dressler type of role. The Wiggs children speak with similar accents, do not look at the camera, and are quite charming. True love is wholesomely portrayed by the winsome Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor, who appeared together in David Harum. The affection of the pompous Mr. Stubbins (W. C. Fields) for Miss Bazy (Zazu Pitts) may be placed on a somewhat lower level, for Mr. Stubbins has to be lured toward the altar by the combined...
...President and Mrs. Roosevelt joined in sending a telegram ''of courage and cheer" to Marie Dressler, reported to be dying of cancer at Santa Barbara...