Word: koerber
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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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...