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The Filmgoers' Annual
101
LEILA KOERBER made her very first appearance in Caburg, Canada, on a ninth of November, which is given variously as 1869 and 1871. You can take your choice. The lady concerned will not mind.
Anyhow, Marie Dressier made her first stage appearance in 1886 as Cigarette in " Under Two Flags." She first played in New York in 1892 in " The Robber of the Rhine," in which Hayden Coffin also made his first New York appearance. She was first seen on the London stage at the Palace Theatre in 1907. She made her first film, " Tillie's Punctured Romance," in which Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand also played, in 1914.
Marie Dressier has had a long and brilliant career on the stage, in silent films and in talking pictures.
In 1925, she was signed on a long term contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and appeared in a series of films with Polly Moran.
She scored in talking pictures, an outstanding character success in " Anna Christie," in which Greta Garbo played the title part.
She made a great comedy hit with Polly Moran in " Caught Short."
She also gave an exceptionally brilliant characterisation in the Norma Shearer comedy. drama, " Let us be Gay."
In "Min and Bill," she is magnificent in one of the most moving emotional studies ever seen on the screen. It is a remarkable fact that in a world of entertainment, alleged to be the reservation of " flaming youth," that this character actress, at the age of sixty, should be one of the most popular personalities in pictures. I People who affect to despise the cinema as entertainment should be reminded of the fact that the coming of dialogue in films has placed a premium on experience.