This was followed by the 1933 movie Tugboat Annie, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat.

Between these pillars are reliefs which were added between 1882 and 1901 by Thomas Stirling Lee, C. J. Allen and Conrad Dressler.

Dressler appeared in more than 40 films, and achieved her greatest successes in talking pictures made during the last years of her life.

The Keystone Cops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Chaplin in the first full-length Sennett comedy feature, Tillie's Punctured Romance ( 1914 ), as well as in Mabel's New Hero ( 1913 ) with Normand and Arbuckle, Making a Living ( 1914 ) with Chaplin in his first screen appearance ( pre-Tramp ), In the Clutches of the Gang ( 1914 ) with Normand, Arbuckle, and Al St. John, and Wished on Mabel ( 1915 ) with Arbuckle and Normand, among others.

* Tillie's Punctured Romance ( 1914 ) ( Available to watch / download from the Internet Archive ) with Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Charles Chaplin

*" Marie, Polly, and Bess " with Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, and Bessie Love

Berle recalled, " There were even trips out to Hollywood — the studios paid — where I got parts in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, with Mary Pickford ; The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Tillie's Punctured Romance, with Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Marie Dressler.

On June 30, 2008, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in its " Canadians in Hollywood " series to honour Norma Shearer, along with others for Raymond Burr, Marie Dressler, and Chief Dan George.

) Other Beery films include Billy the Kid ( 1930 ) with Johnny Mack Brown, The Secret Six ( 1931 ) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Hell Divers ( 1931 ) with Gable, Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with Joan Crawford, Tugboat Annie ( 1933 ) with Dressler, Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) opposite Harlow, The Bowery with George Raft, Fay Wray, and Pert Kelton that same year, China Seas ( 1935 ) with Gable and Harlow, and Eugene O ' Neill's Ah, Wilderness!

He starred in several comedies with Marie Dressler and Marjorie Main, but his career began to decline in his last decade.

* Min and Bill ( 1930 ) with Marie Dressler

* Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) with Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, and Jean Harlow

* Tugboat Annie ( 1934 ) with Marie Dressler

Dressler left home at fourteen and began her acting career as a chorus girl with the Nevada Stock Company when she was fourteen.

Dressler had shown great kindness to Marion during the filming of Tillie Wakes Up in 1917, and in return, Marion used her influence with MGM's production chief Irving Thalberg to return Dressler to the screen.

Her first MGM feature was The Callahans and the Murphys ( 1927 ), a rowdy silent comedy co-starring Dressler ( as Ma Callahan ) with another former Mack Sennett comedienne, Polly Moran, written by Marion.

Dressler appeared in two more " Tillie " sequels and other comedies until 1918, when she returned to vaudeville.

The other, by Matthew Kennedy, titled Marie Dressler: A Biography ( 1999 ), is the more comprehensive source ; however, only Lee had access to the diary of an intimate friend of Dressler's, the silent film actress Claire Dubrey.

Dressler appeared as Tillie in two more movies, Tillie's Tomato Surprise ( 1915 ) and Tillie Wakes Up ( 1917 ), although in the latter film the Tillie character has a different last name.

The Dressler kiln allowed the continuous production of ware, and was much more efficient in both fuel and labour than the traditional round kilns.

Following the release of that film, Dressler appeared on the cover of Time magazine, in its August 7, 1933, issue.

MGM held a huge birthday party for Dressler in 1933, broadcast live via radio.

In 1933, Burke was cast as Mrs. Millicent Jordan, a scatterbrained high-society woman hosting a dinner party in the comedy Dinner at Eight, directed by George Cukor, co-starring with Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery.

Helen also performed in at least 14 movies including Christopher Bean ( 1933 ) with Beulah Bondi and Marie Dressler, Naughty Marietta ( 1935 ) with Nelson Eddy and Frank Morgan, San Francisco ( 1936 ) with Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald, and Small Town Girl ( 1936 ) with Robert Taylor and James Stewart.

Many other important actors also began their careers at Keystone, including Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Louise Fazenda, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Fatty Arbuckle, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon and Chester Conklin.

As Cromwell developed his talents for lifelike mask-making and oil-painting, he curried friendships in the late 1920s with various then-starlets who posed for him and collected his works including Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Crawford, Anna Q. Nilsson, Greta Garbo, Claire Dubrey, Ann Sothern, and even Marie Dressler ( whom he would later share top-billing with in 1932's Emma ).

In 1931, the Pottery was acquired as a subsidiary of James Oakes & Co. ( Riddings ) Ltd. and renamed Lovatts Potteries Ltd. One of the first actions of the new ownership was to introduce a substantial programme of modernisation, including the installation of a gas-fired Dressler Kiln to replace the old Round Kilns.

Other segments feature Lionel Barrymore, Marion Davies, Gus Edwards, John Gilbert, Buster Keaton, Marie Dressler, Anita Page, Norma Shearer, and the comedy team of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur.

In 1914 she starred with Chaplin and Marie Dressler in Tillie's Punctured Romance, the first feature-length comedy.

* Bringing Up Father ( 1928 ) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Silent comedy directed by Jack Conway, written by Frances Marion with titles by Ralph Spence, starring J. Farrell MacDonald as Jiggs, Polly Moran as Maggie, Gertrude Omstead as their daughter ( renamed " Ellen "), and Jules Cowles and Marie Dressler as Mr. and Mrs. Dinty Moore.

It was at this time that Dressler adopted the name of an aunt as her stage name.

Dressler had appeared in two shorts as herself, but her first role in a film came in 1914, at the age of 44.

Dressler died at the age of 65 on Saturday July 28, 1934 in Santa Barbara, California.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Marie Dressler has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1731 Vine Street, added in 1960.

The following taxonomy follows largely the classification system of Robert Louis Dressler, an orchid specialist and adjunct curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

In 1989, the lineup was guitarist Scott Dressler, then 15 years of age, 17 year-old drummer Mike Kimaid, Daryl Taberski, age 18 on bass, and Tiger Balduf, the eldest at 19 on vocals.

Timothy Redmond taught AP Government, Global History, and The Turbulent Sixties at Williamsville East High School and Scott Dressler was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Villanova University.

He was one of the developers of the Vienna School of Textlinguistik ( Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna ), and published the seminal Introduction to Text Linguistics in 1981, with Wolfgang U. Dressler.

He was special guest at some KiEw live shows as a singer, did remixes for KiEw and assisted the KiEw audio engineer Hauke Dressler several times since 2009.

He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa !, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Dressler appeared in a play called Robber of the Rhine which was written by Maurice Barrymore.

Her first marriage to Hoeppert gave Dressler American citizenship, which was useful later in life, when American immigration rules meant permits were needed to work in the United States, and Dressler had to appear before an immigration hearing.

For a time, Dressler had her own theatre troupe, which performed " Miss Prinnt " in cities of the American north-east.

The cow was killed, leading to " Marie Dressler: Killed In Line of Duty " headlines, to which Dressler quipped " I had a hard time convincing people that the report of my death had been greatly exaggerated.

Garbo and the critics were impressed by Dressler's acting ability, and so was MGM, which quickly signed Dressler to a $ 500-per-week contract.

A robust, full-bodied woman of very plain features, Dressler went on to act in comic films which were very popular with the movie-going public and an equally lucrative investment for MGM.

In 1919 he was in charge of the New York headquarters during the Equity strike in which fellow Canadian and friend, actress Marie Dressler assumed a major part with him that led to her being blacklisted by the producers.

The film was based on the Broadway play Tillie's Nightmare, which Dressler had great success in, on Broadway, and on tour in the United States, from 1910 – 1912.

Cromwell by then had maintained a deep friendship with Marie Dressler, which continued until her death from cancer in 1934.

Beaugrande and Dressler define a text as a “ communicative occurrence which meets seven standards of textuality ” – Cohesion, Coherence, Intentionality, Acceptability, Informativity, Situationality and Intertextuality, without any of which the text will not be communicative.