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Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler's biography

Marie Dressler is 66 years old film actor born at Canada. She was born on Monday 9th of November 1868. According to year of birth 1868 she belongs to . Birthday on 9th of November means she is Scorpio. Scorpio is a watery sign. These people are very intense in their thoughts. They always learn from the transformatory phase of their life.

She is citizen of United States of America. Her primary profession is to be film actor. You can know her also as film producer, stage actor, screenwriter. She is recently known as film director. She received Academy Award for Best Actress Min and Bill in 1930

Marie Dressler's career

Her main focus is to be film actor. You could see her also in Min and Bill.

How did Marie Dressler die

She died on on Saturday 28th of July 1934 when he was 66 years old at Santa Barbara. Marie Dresslers death was caused by cancer. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Marie Dressler's Awards

  • Dressler won the 4th Academy Award for Best Actress (for her very serious performance in the dramatic film Min and Bill (1930)) and received the statuette at the ceremony held on November 10, 1931, the day after her 63rd birthday.

Marie Dressler's Nominations

  • She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Min and Bill in 1931
  • She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Emma in 1932

What Marie Dressler has done for a first time

  • In 1910, Dressler scored her greatest Broadway hit with "Tillie's Nightmare", which four years later served as the basis of her first motion picture, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914).

Marie Dressler's quotes

  • If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
  • By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
  • Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
  • Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
  • I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
  • You're only as good as your last picture.
  • [on winning the Best Actress Award for Min and Bill (1930)] Like an old Model-T Ford, I had to be cranked up. I was scared stiff.

Marie Dressler's body shape

Lets describe how Marie Dressler looks. We will focus on her body shape. Body build is average.