Marie Dressler

Actor, Film actor

1868 – 1934

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Who was Marie Dressler?

Marie Dressler was a Canadian–American stage and screen actress and early silent film and Depression-era film star. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930–31 for Min and Bill and played the titular role in the first full-length screen comedy, 1914's Tillie's Punctured Romance, opposite Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand.

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Born
Nov 9, 1868
Cobourg
Also known as
  • Leila Marie Koerber
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Religion
  • Anglicanism
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Canada
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Died
Jul 28, 1934
Santa Barbara
Resting place
Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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