Marie Dressler & R. Stracciari - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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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).