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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Marie Dressler</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/marie-dressler/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1930</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1930/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1930/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:38:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4323</guid> <description><![CDATA[Made at the dawn of the sound era, All Quiet on the Western Front remains the best war film ever made. Despite some brave (and not so brave) attempts by other filmmakers ever since, no other motion picture I've seen has captured the horrors of war with the honesty and the poignancy of Lewis Milestone's rendition of Erich Maria Remarque's pacifist novel. Lew Ayres plays [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1930/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CELEBRITIES IN THE 1930 CENSUS: Q&amp;A with Author Allan R. Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:39:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/</guid> <description><![CDATA[As it says on the cover, Allan R. Ellenberger's Celebrities in the 1930 Census (McFarland, 2008, US$49.95) is a compilation of household data &#8212; as collected by 1930 census takers &#8212; of more than 2,000 &#34;U.S. actors, musicians, scientists, athletes, writers, politicians and other public figures.&#34; (The woman in the photo is aviatrix Amelia Earhart.) The book, of course, doesn't offer any saucy insights into [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler V: Lesbian Rumors, Film Possibilities</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marie-dressler-lesbian-claire-du-brey/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marie-dressler-lesbian-claire-du-brey/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:41:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18681</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marie Dressler in Dinner at 8 Marie Dressler IV: DINNER AT 8, THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN Marie Dressler and Claire Du Brey. Were they really lovers? Did you go through Du Brey's papers? (I believe actor John Phillip Law is in possession of them.) Ah, the lesbian love question! I talked with Mr. Law, and met with the actress Sierra Pecheur, who knew Du Brey [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marie-dressler-lesbian-claire-du-brey/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler IV: DINNER AT 8, THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/marie-dressler-dinner-at-8-the-late-christopher-bean/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/marie-dressler-dinner-at-8-the-late-christopher-bean/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:40:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18678</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow in Dinner at 8 Marie Dressler III: Wallace Beery, Polly Moran Comedies Some reviewers have complained that Marie Dressler didn't act. They say she overacted. What do you think? Writing about her as an actress was tough, because there is no one remotely like her anymore. If you watch her performances today, you can see that she was a true-blue ham. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/marie-dressler-dinner-at-8-the-late-christopher-bean/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler III: Wallace Beery, Polly Moran Comedies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:39:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18669</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler in Min and Bill Marie Dressler II: Silent Films, Movie Stardom How did Marie Dressler react to her newfound stardom? Marie basked in her success. She had been through enough trials in life &#8212; points when she couldn't get a job &#8212; and so she was more than ready for fame and adoration. I think audiences loved that they could give [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler II: Silent Films, Movie Stardom</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/marie-dressler-movie-stardom/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/marie-dressler-movie-stardom/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:38:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18655</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/marie-dressler-movie-stardom/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler: Q&amp;A with Author Matthew Kennedy</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/marie-dressler/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/marie-dressler/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:37:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18654</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marie Dressler: Introduction First of all, what made you decide to write a book on Marie Dressler, a performer who died in 1934? Well, she does seem to be a member of the obscurati, doesn't she? But once I started looking at her life, I was hooked. In the early 1990s, some friends and I saw Dinner at Eight at the Crest Theater, an old [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/marie-dressler/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marie-dressler-matthew-kennedy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marie-dressler-matthew-kennedy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:06:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marie-dressler-matthew-kennedy/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marie Dressler in Dinner at 8 It's Oscar time. What better way to celebrate the 2008 Academy Awards than by having a q&#38;a about the best actress Oscar winner &#8230; of 1931? (Or rather, for the period 1930-31, as the Oscars in those days covered films released in the Los Angeles area from August 1 to July 31.) And who was the best actress winner [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marie-dressler-matthew-kennedy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
