Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in ‘Min and Bill’ Wallace Beery movies: TCM offers a glimpse into Beery’s extensive filmography According to the IMDb, the Wallace Beery Filmography features nearly 240 movie titles, including shorts and features, spanning more than…
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There was a lot of complaining about the line-up at Cinecon 2008, held on Labor Day Weekend, which was affected by the Univeral fire and other matters, including the deaths of Rusty Casselton and Bob Nudelman. Still, the films were…
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Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington. Monday-Wednesday, Aug. 4–6, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Monday is Marie Dressler Day. What could be there not to recommend? Well, Emma, for one, is an appallingly sudsy melodrama, and Dressler herself is quite weak as…
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1930 U.S. census celebrities: Amelia Earhart in, but Greta Garbo and gangsters wanted to be left alone. ‘Celebrities in the 1930 Census’: Mae West and Marie Dressler find Fountain of Youth, Greta Garbo and Al Capone go missing As it…
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Marie Dressler in Dinner at 8 It’s Oscar time. What better way to celebrate the 2008 Academy Awards than by having a q&a about the best actress Oscar winner … of 1931? (Or rather, for the period 1930-31, as the…
