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Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler

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" She was homely, overweight, and over the hill, but there was a time when Marie Dressler outdrew such cinema sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow. To movie audiences suffering the hardships of the Great Depression, she was Everywoman, and in the early 1930s her charming mixture of pathos and comedy packed movie theaters everywhere. In the early days of the century, Dressler was constantly in the headlines. She took up the cause of the "ponies" in the chorus lines, earning them better pay

Author: Betty Lee
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 08/28/1997
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.41w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780813120362

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/30/1997 pg. 61
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/1997 pg. 931
Booklist 08/01/1997 pg. 1867
Library Journal 10/01/1997 pg. 85

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