Anna-Christie-Garbo-Dressler, Photoplay magazine movie advertisement

Promotional photograph for the film Anna Christie starring Greta Garbo and Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler - Canadian-American actress and comedian of silent and early sound film eras of the 1910s and 1920s, born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada in 1868, began her career in vaudeville and on Broadway before moving to Hollywood in 1913. Dressler was a comic 'woman of a certain age'. Movies: "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914), "Dinner at Eight" (1933), "Emma" (1932).