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1. Dinner at Eight (1933)
Passed | 111 min | Drama
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow
Votes: 9,014 | Gross: $4.58M
2. Anna Christie (I) (1930)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler
Votes: 3,503 | Gross: $1.01M
3. The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Passed | 130 min | Comedy, Music
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Directors: Charles Reisner, Christy Cabanne, Norman Houston | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer
Votes: 2,255
4. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy
A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.
Directors: Mack Sennett, Charles Bennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain
Votes: 3,724
5. Emma (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy
Votes: 1,141 | Gross: $2.00M
6. Min and Bill (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 1,901
7. One Romantic Night (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler
Votes: 466
8. Tugboat Annie (1933)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy
Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 813
9. The Divine Lady (1928)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith
Votes: 935
10. Christopher Bean (1933)
75 min | Comedy
When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of their value.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 42
11. The Patsy (1928)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray
Votes: 2,776
12. Let Us Be Gay (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Bob had become bored with her ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler, Gilbert Emery
Votes: 627
13. The Christmas Party (1931)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Family
Jackie wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team, but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM decide to help him out.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Marion Davies
Votes: 451
14. The March of Time (1930)
Musical
A musical revue scheduled for release in September 1930 but shelved midway through production when musicals fell out of favor at the box office. In the years since, film aficionados have ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Albertina Rasch Dancers, Betty Brown, William Collier Jr., William Collier Sr.
15. Chasing Rainbows (1930)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny, George K. Arthur
Votes: 270
16. The Girl Said No (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss's secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler
Votes: 867
17. Prosperity (1932)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Six years later, John, Helen and the two children are happy in their home, but the two mother-in-laws are ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Norman Foster
Votes: 291
18. Tillie's Tomato Surprise (1915)
Comedy
Tillie inherits her aunt's fortune.
Director: Howell Hansel | Stars: Marie Dressler, Colin Campbell, Eleanor Fairbanks, Sarah McVicker
Votes: 50
19. Reducing (1931)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Drama
A beauty parlor manager has her sister help her with interesting results.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 285
20. Politics (1931)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
Middle-aged widow Hattie Burns becomes fed up when local small-town politicians ignore corruption and decides to run for mayor herself.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Roscoe Ates, Karen Morley
Votes: 295
21. The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Family ties and duty are tested as a pair of feuding tenement housewives cope with their sizable broods and the rocky romance of Mrs. Callahan's with-child daughter and Mrs. Murphy's wastrel son.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Sally O'Neil, Lawrence Gray
Votes: 11
22. Bringing Up Father (1928)
70 min | Comedy
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, J. Farrell MacDonald, Jules Cowles
Votes: 157
23. Tillie Wakes Up (1917)
48 min | Comedy
On the third floor of the apartment house at 003 Findlet Avenue lived Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tinkelpaw. The neighbors said it was a shame the way he neglected his poor wife, but Tillie's ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Davenport | Stars: Marie Dressler, Johnny Hines, Frank Beamish, Rubye De Remer
Votes: 507
24. The Vagabond Lover (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Musical
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Rudy Vallee, Sally Blane, Marie Dressler, Charles Sellon
Votes: 285
25. The Joy Girl (1927)
70 min | Comedy
Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an heiress. She returns to a successful hat ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Olive Borden, Neil Hamilton, Marie Dressler, Mary Alden
Votes: 18
26. Breakfast at Sunrise (1927)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance
While plotting together to win back their lovers, rich Madeleine and penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Constance Talmadge, Don Alvarado, Bryant Washburn, Alice White
Votes: 26
27. Caught Short (1930)
75 min | Comedy
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Charles Morton
28. Actors' Fund Field Day (1910)
Short, Comedy
It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses. They don't keep still a minute when they get loose on the village green at the Polo ... See full summary »
Stars: George Bickel, Emma Carus, George M. Cohan, James J. Corbett
Votes: 24
29. Dangerous Females (1929)
21 min | Comedy, Short
Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
Director: William Watson | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Frank Rice, Arthur Millett
Votes: 57
30. Jackie Cooper's Birthday Party (1931)
Documentary, Short
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Wallace Beery
Votes: 42
31. Fired (1917)
Comedy, Short
Marie is a waitress discharged from her job who makes friends with a hobo and afterward tries to rob a house.
Director: Marie Dressler | Stars: Marie Dressler, James T. Kelley, William McCall, John Rand
32. The Scrub Lady (1917)
Short, Comedy
Tilly is a scrub woman in a munitions factory.
Stars: Marie Dressler, Raymond Cacho, Fred Hallen, Florence Hamilton
33. Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 (1930)
9 min | Short
President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge visit Jack L. Warner and Mary Pickford in Hollywood; various players are glimpsed at work on the Columbia lot; stars turn out for a Hollywood Premiere.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Eddie Lambert, Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, Jack L. Warner
36. Animated Weekly, No. 44 (1913)
Documentary, Short, News
Governor Sulzer inaugurated at Albany, N.Y. Pilgrim Suffragettes. The Natal. The English Man o' War bearing Ambassador Whitelaw Reid's body home. Broncho Busting at Cheyenne. Wyoming ... See full summary »
Stars: John Campbell, George Washington Donaghey, Marie Dressler, Lulu Glaser
37. The Agonies of Agnes (1918)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Aggie is a tiny tot, weighing some two hundred, with a fondness for mixed ale. Her father is a baker, who hands out plaster of Paris bread to the poor and her mother is constantly in tears ... See full summary »
Star: Marie Dressler
38. The Red Cross Nurse (1918)
Comedy, Short
Marie, a nurse in a sanatorium, is mistaken for an heiress by a number of men who proceed to become patients in order to be near her.
Director: Marie Dressler | Star: Marie Dressler
39. The Voice of Hollywood No. 14 (1930)
10 min | Short
Stars: George K. Arthur, Ben Bard, Edmund Breese, Marie Dressler
40.
You Must Remember This (2014– )
Marie Dressler, the First Female Star to Conquer Hollywood's Ageism (Make Me Over, Episode 3)
(2020 Podcast Episode)
48 min | History
In 1933, the biggest female star in American movies wasn't a sex symbol like Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow or Marlene Dietrich. It was Marie Dressler - homely, overweight and over 60 years old. ... See full summary »
Director: Karina Longworth | Stars: Karina Longworth, Farran Smith Nehme, Marie Dressler