Marie Dressler: A Biography; With a Listing of Major Stage Performances, a Filmography and a Discography

by Matthew Kennedy and Matthew Kennedy

Book Overview

Early in the century, Marie Dressler was hailed as one of America's finest comics, with a 20-year string of Broadway and vaudeville successes including The Lady Slavey, Miss Prinnt, Higgledy Piggledy, The Man in the Moon, and Tillie's Nightmare. She starred with Charlie Chaplin in the first ever feature-length comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance and later in Min and Bill for which she won an Academy Award. A brilliant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786428449
• ISBN13: 9780786428441
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher