Anna Christie Articles
Marie Dressler II: Silent Films, Movie Stardom

Marie Dressler Interview: Part I Marie Dressler was very popular in vaudeville at the turn of the 20th century. Did she try to become a silent-film star? She was in Tillie's Punctured Romance with Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand in 1914, but she doesn't seem to have quite caught on. Why not? As told in the book, Marie was a huge star when Mack Sennett [...]