Marie Dressler Movies

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in...

It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and...

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is...

Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of...

A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.

Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy.

Tillie and her neighbor Mr. Pipkins are both distraught over their respective marriages. One day, they sneak off to have a lively time at Coney...

A compilation of thirteen rare silent films digitized by the Library of Congress, selected for the 2022 Domitor conference theme “Copy/Rights...

Tilly is a scrub woman in a munitions factory.

A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.

Here you will see Marie Dressler, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, Walter Huston and a host of other Canadians who achieved world renown on the silver...

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.

Rare footage reveals how stars were created and motion pictures sold, and how the the advent of sound and color changed movies.