Marie Dressler

By Betty Lee

Book Overview

" She was homely, overweight, and over the hill, but there was a time when Marie Dressler outdrew such cinema sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow. To movie audiences suffering the hardships of the Great Depression, she was Everywoman, and in the early 1930s her charming mixture of pathos and comedy packed movie theaters everywhere. In the early days of the century, Dressler was constantly in the headlines. She took up the cause of the "ponies" in the chorus lines, earning them better pay

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813120365
• ISBN13: 9780813120362
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher