Marie Dressler
Nacimiento : 1868-11-09, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Muerte : 1934-07-28
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Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star. Successful on stage in vaudeville and comic operas, she was also successful in film.
Leaving home at the age of 14, Dressler built a career on stage in traveling theatre troupes, where she learned to appreciate her talent in making people laugh. In 1892 she started a career on Broadway that lasted into the 1920s, performing comedic roles that allowed her to improvise to get laughs. From one of her successful Broadway roles, she played the titular role in the first full-length screen comedy, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), opposite Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. She made several shorts, but mostly worked in New York City on stage. Her career declined in the 1920s.
In 1927, Dressler returned to films at the age of 59 and experienced a remarkable string of successes. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930–31 for Min and Bill and was named the top film star for 1932 and 1933.
Marie Dressler died of cancer in 1934.
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El tercer documental de la trilogía en el que se pueden ver interesantes tomas falsas protagonizadas por Judy Garland o Lena Horne. Anteriores estrellas musicales de la MGM como Gene Kelly presentan los números musicales.
Herself (archive footage)
Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow. Included are clips from many of her films, photos and stories about her life before she became a movie star, and accounts of her troubled personal life, including a domineering mother, the failure of her three marriages and the suicide of her second husband.
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Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Self (archive footage)
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
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Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Carlotta Vance (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Self (archive footage)
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.
Self (archive footage)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Self (archive footage)
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Herself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
Tras alcanzar el éxito, un cantante de baladas abandona a su prometida, una joven profesora, y se marcha con una mujer fatal. A pesar de ello, la novia no se rinde e intentará recuperarlo utilizando todos los medios a su alcance.
Carlotta Vance
Una mujer prepara una cena para unos amigos. Quiere animar a su marido, cuya salud está un poco resentida. No obstante, invita al responsable de las principales preocupaciones de su marido, un hombre de negocios que pretende hacerse con las acciones de la empresa que su marido tiene.
Abby
En una localidad cercana a Boston transcurre la apacible vida del matrimonio Haggett, sus hijas Susan y Ada y la sirvienta Abby, hasta que su existencia se ve interrumpida por la súbita llegada de un desconocido, Maxwell Davenport, que se presenta como amigo del fallecido Christopher Bean, un pintor que vivía con la familia Haggett. El recién llegado pronto se interesa por la obra pictórica del difunto que permanece en la casa, alegando motivos sentimentales. La verdad resulta que Bean llegó a convertirse en un célebre pintor. Pronto entran en liza por los cuadros sendos comerciantes de arte: Un tal Rosen y el verdadero Maxwell Davenport.
Vaudeville Act (archive footage)
Tres generaciones de vodeviles luchan por el estrellato en el escenario y en la pantalla.
Annie
La vida de Ana (Marie Dressler), que lleva un remolcador mientras ha de soportar a su marido borracho (Wallace Beery).
Maggie Warren
La matriarca de una familia de banqueros lidera a su clan durante una crisis económica.
Emma Thatcher
Después de décadas de criar a los hijos sin madre de Smith, la ama de llaves Emma Thatcher se enfrenta al resentimiento cuando se casa con su padre.
Herself (uncredited)
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper 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 help him out.
Hattie Burns
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
Marie Truffle
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Min Divot
Mins es la propietaria de un hotel costero donde vive Bill, el capitán de un barco costero. También vive y trabaja en el hotel Nancy, una joven que Min recogió años atrás cuando era una niña abandonada. (FILMAFFINITY)
Self - Old Timer Sequence
Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers and up-and-coming performers. Musical excerpts were later used in Broadway to Hollywood (1933), Nertsery Rhymes (1933), and Roast-Beef and Movies (1934). "The Lock Step" was later used in That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Mrs. Bouccicault
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 lackluster appearance, their children and himself. Kitty re-invents herself and becomes a Continental favorite, dressing like a fashion model and behaving gaily. Three years after their divorce, Bob is at the home of a wealthy matron romancing her soon-to-be-married granddaughter, when the matron invites Kitty to a weekend party to steal Bob away from the granddaughter. When Kitty and Bob see each other, neither lets on they have a past, and the party continues as Bob pursues his ex-wife and new conquest equally.
Marie Jones
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 friends. Polly invests in the stock market and begins to reap rewards, but she is unable to persuade Marie to use her life's savings to buy shares of American Cheese or Brazilian Bananas. Meanwhile, Marie's daughter, Genevieve, and Polly's son, William, just back from college, fall in love; but an argument between the ladies breaks up the romance; and smarting under Polly's patronizing manner, Marie plunges into the market herself and with the winnings is able to stage a society splurge at a fashionable resort.
Princess Beatrice
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
Hettie Brown
Un joven ambicioso consigue empleo en un banco y trata de seducir a la secretaria de su jefe, pero la muerte de su padre logra que reconsidere sus prioridades.
Marthy Owens
Un marinero abandona a su hija y ésta se dedica a la prostitución hasta que su padre irrumpe de nuevo en su vida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bonnie
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. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Ethel Whitehall
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
Self
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Sarah Bascom
Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
Mrs. Hart
Emma entra a trabajar con su madre en la casa de un rico aristócrata, el honorable Charles Greville, quién no tarda en seducirla, aunque no mucho después decide enviarla a Nápoles con su tío Sir William Hamilton para que se convierta en su amante y así evitar que este se case y perder la herencia. Con lo que no contaba Greville es que finalmente Hamilton pediría la mano de Emma y acabaría casándose con ella, a pesar de que Emma le ha confesado que no le ama. Poco después estalla la guerra entre Inglaterra y Francia... (FILMAFFINITY)
Ma Harrington
En la familia Harrington, Patricia (Marion Davies) es la rechazada por mamá, mientras que Grace (Jane Winton), la menor, lo consigue todo... hasta el hombre con el que su propia hermana sueña. Solo papá respalda a Pat, pero la muchacha va a demostrar que, con un poco de personalidad, se puede hacer que las cosas cambien.
Annie Moore
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 suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
Queen
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Mrs. Heath
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 shop she maintains catering to socialites. Her true love turns out to be in fact, a rich man who let her think he was not to test her.
Film was released in 1927
Tillie Tinkelpaw
Tillie and her neighbor Mr. Pipkins are both distraught over their respective marriages. One day, they sneak off to have a lively time at Coney Island. They flee the park together just as their spouses come to find them. After a chase, each is rescued from the ocean and reconcile with their respective spouses.
Tillie Todd gives her rich Aunt Sally a dime-store tomato pincushion for her birthday, claiming that it is the product of her own hard labor. However, Cousin Percy, also competing for Sally's favor, snidely exposes the deception. While testing his latest invention, Tillie's paramour, The Bat, makes a crash landing at Aunt Sally's birthday celebration. Inspired, eccentric Sally takes to the air herself, but after several days' absence she is declared dead. Aunt Sally bequeaths Tillie the tomato pincushion, giving most of the estate to her pet monkey, Jim, and after Jim's death, to Percy. Wanting to speed up his inheritance, Percy kidnaps Jim and connives to frame Tillie for his apparent death. The police relentlessly pursue Tillie until Aunt Sally finally returns. Disgusted at her inability to rid herself of the ugly pincushion, which Percy nastily keeps returning to her, Tillie rips it apart with her teeth, only to discover that it is filled with 10,000 dollar bills.
Tillie Banks
Charlot es un timador de ciudad que induce a Tillie a robar los ahorros de su padre y huya con él. Una vez ha llegado a la ciudad, Charlot se apropia del dinero y vuelve junto a Mabel, su primer amor y pareja del delito. Esta considerado como el primer largometraje del genero de comedia de la historia.
Self
It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.
