For her starring portrayal in Min and Bill, co-starring Wallace Beery, she won the 1930-31 Academy Award for Best Actress ( the eligibility years were staggered at that time ).

Dressler's career completely stalled in the late 1920s to the point that she found herself flat broke and unable to find work, but she came back stronger than ever between 1930 and 1933, beating out Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford by topping the exhibitors ' poll as the screen's most popular actress three years in a row and becoming MGM's biggest star in the wake of two smash-hit films with fellow character actor Wallace Beery: Min and Bill ( 1930 ), for which she won an Academy Award, and Tugboat Annie ( 1933 ).

He easily won the general election with 70. 7 % of the vote against Democratic nominee Sharon Beery, despite a national Democratic wave in that year's elections.

* Academy Awards: Oscar ; Best Actor in a Leading Role, Fredric March ; tied with Wallace Beery for The Champ ; 1932.

The film stars Noah Beery and Bernice Claire and is nominated for an Oscar for " Best Sound Recording ".

The movie stars Wallace Beery ( Andy " Champ " Purcell ) and Jackie Cooper ( Dink ), and tells the story of a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life together for the sake of his young son.

Screenwriter Frances Marion wrote the title role specifically for Wallace Beery, who by 1931 was no star but merely an aging character actor.

In an overcrowded prison designed for 1800 and actually holding 3000, he is placed in a cell with Butch ( Wallace Beery ) and Morgan ( Chester Morris ), the two leaders of the inmates.

Wallace Beery attended the Chase School in Kansas City and took piano lessons as well, but showed little love for academic matters.

Beery played the savage convict " Butch ", a role originally intended for Lon Chaney, Sr., in the highly successful 1930 prison film The Big House, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

The book claims that Beery was sent to Europe by the studio for a few months, while a story was concocted that three college students had killed Healy.

Noah Beery records his song from the picture for Brunswick Records.

The powerfully frenetic opening theme song from the original series was rerecorded and slowed to a mournfully funereal pace, and practically everyone in the original cast of recurring characters returned for the new episodes except Noah Beery, Jr., who had died in the interim.

From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, ( 1948 ), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford ( 1949 ), Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) with James Stewart, War Arrow ( 1953 ) with Maureen O ' Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River ( 1954 ), Walk the Proud Land ( 1956 ) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James ( 1959 ) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint ( 1964 ) with Johnny Crawford.

Under orders from studio head Louis B. Mayer, MGM sent Beery, one of their most valuable properties, to Europe for several months, while the story of the " three college boys " was fabricated to conceal the truth.

" In 1927 and 1928, he did the titles ( the printed dialogue and explanations ) for at least twenty-five films that starred Clara Bow, Bebe Daniels, Nancy Carroll, Wallace Beery, and other public favorites.

The book claims that Beery was sent to Europe by the studio for a few months, while a story was concocted that three college students had killed Healy.

Fleming asserts that MGM executives Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling, in an attempt to save the reputation of their star Beery, fabricated a story about college students attacking Healy, immediately followed by a four-month trip to Europe for Beery.

She became the first female to win an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1930 for the film The Big House, she received the Academy Award for Best Story for The Champ in 1932, both featuring Wallace Beery, and co-wrote Min and Bill starring her friend Marie Dressler and Beery in 1930.

After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles among many other types of roles, including in The Bowery ( 1933 ) and Viva Villa ( 1934 ), both huge productions starring Wallace Beery.

In 1979, Voight once again put on boxing gloves, starring in 1979's remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper vehicle, The Champ, with Voight playing the part of an alcoholic ex-heavyweight and a young Rick Schroder playing the role of his adoring son.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

The 1930s movie The Bowery with George Raft and Wallace Beery includes a NYC sports-bar named " Nigger Joe's ".

After the film's debut, Beery declared Cooper was a " great kid " but that he would not work with the child actor again, a promise he broke within the year.

Andy " Champ " Purcell ( Wallace Beery ) is the former world heavyweight champion, now down on his luck and living in squalid conditions with his eight-year-old son " Dink " in Tijuana, Mexico.

The film, along with Beery's role in Min and Bill, transformed Beery from aging character actor to a verified star.

The film also starred Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Hank Worden, Noah Beery Jr. and Harry Carey, Jr. Borden Chase wrote the script with Charles Schnee, based on Chase's original story ( which was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1946 as " Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail ").

Silent film stars Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee and Wallace Beery stayed with local families during production.

He played adventurers in the dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ) with Wallace Beery and The Mask of Fu Manchu ( 1932 ) with Boris Karloff, and a police captain in Bureau of Missing Persons ( 1933 ).

In 1915, Beery starred with his wife Gloria Swanson in Sweedie Goes to College.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

* 1946 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor ( b. 1882 )

* 1913 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor ( d. 1994 )

* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

Hawks's next two films at MGM were the boxing drama The Prizefighter and the Lady and the bio-pic Viva Villa !, starring Wallace Beery as Mexican Revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.

* 1882 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor ( d. 1946 )

* April 15 – Wallace Beery, American actor ( b. 1885 )

** Noah Beery Jr., American actor ( d. 1994 )

** Noah Beery, Sr., American actor ( b. 1882 )

* April 1 – Wallace Beery, American actor ( d. 1949 )

** Noah Beery, American actor ( d. 1946 )

Wallace Beery claimed to have turned down a $ 500, 000 offer from a syndicate of Indian studios to play Buddha in order to take the role in The Champ.

Wallace Beery flew his own plane from Los Angeles, California, cross-country to attend the premiere.

Variety, too, very much liked Beery in the film, noting that he delivered a " studied, adult " performance.

" Nonetheless, Time praised the movie, declaring it " Utterly false and thoroughly convincing ..." Many critics cited the " special chemistry " between Beery and Cooper, which led the two actors to be paired again numerous times.