#PARA PAR@ ` TEXT ` Dressler, Marie1869╨1934actorBorn in Cobourg, Ontario, on November 9, 1869, Leila Marie Koerber was the daughter of a poor and sometimes itinerant music teacher and received little schooling while living in a succession of towns in Canada and the United States. At fourteen she left home and joined a touring theatrical company, calling herself ╥Marie Dressler╙ after a relative. Periods with other companies, including three years with the George Baker Opera Company, gave her a thorough training in the theater, and after an appearance with Eddie Foy in Little Robinson Crusoe in Chicago she made her New York debut in May 1892 in Maurice Barrymore╒s unsuccessful comic opera The Robber of the Rhine. In 1893 she was in The Princess Nicotine with Lillian Russell, and she continued to appear in supporting roles for a number of years, finally winning acclaim as a fine comedienne in The Lady Slavey at the Casino Theatre in New York in 1896. Other plays followed, including Courted into Court, 1897, Hotel Topsy Turvy, 1898, The Man in the Moon, 1899, Miss Prinnt, 1900, , The Hall of Fame, 1902, and The King╒s Highball, 1903, and she also played in a number of vaudeville sketches and burlesques. In 1904╨1906 she toured with Joe Weber, formerly of the great vaudeville team of Weber and Fields, in Higgledy-Piggledy, 1904, The College Widower, 1905, and Twiddle-Twaddle, 1906. After a vaudeville tour she scored a success in a variety show at the Palace Theatre in London in 1907. In 1910 she opened in her greatest stage role as the lead in Tillie╒s Nightmare, in which, in long runs in New York City and on the road, she sang ╥Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl.╙ Following an unsuccessful tour in her own show she appeared in a few films made by Mack Sennett, notably Tillie╒s Punctured Romance with Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand in 1914. The success of that venture led to a series of films, including Tillie╒s Tomato Surprise, 1915, and Tillie Wakes Up, 1917. After World War I, during which she was active in war bond promotion and in entertaining troops, Dressler╒s stage career suffered a decline, and in 1927 she returned to the movies. In that medium, when she was nearing the age of sixty, she came into her own. Her performance in Anna Christie (with Greta Garbo), 1930, was very well received, and for Min and Bill she won an Academy Award in 1931. She appeared also in One Romantic Night, 1930, Let Us Be Gay, 1930, Prosperity, 1932, Emma, for which she was nominated for another Academy Award, 1932, The Late Christopher Bean, 1933, Dinner at Eight, 1933, and other films, but her best loved and most enduring roles were those she played with robust humor and touching sentiment opposite Wallace Beery╤in the unforgettable Min and Bill, and in Tugboat Annie, 1933. Dressler died on July 28, 1934, in Santa Barbara, California. My Own Story, an expansion of the fragmentary The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling, 1924, appeared in 1934.Movie: Dressler with Frank Rice in the 1929 movie ╥Most Dangerous Females,╙ directed by William Watson. «styl ` H ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ ! !I 2 !I H !I ¼ !I ├ !I ┘ !I ε !I ⌠ !I ▐ !I | !I ï !I ╪ !I Ω !I ≥ !I !I !I !I & !I 1 !I ; !I K !I W !I j !I !I 1 !I 9 !I L !I X !I g !I !I ( !I ² !I !I 1 !I ▐ > !I ë !I í !I ¡ !I ╝ !I ┼ 5¬ ╞ !I ▐ !I δ !I ≥ !I ▐ ² !I & !I 2 !I k !I } !I ä !I Æ !I Ü !I ñ !I ¼ !I ░ !I ∩ !I
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