Marie Dressler Movies

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is...

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and...

While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.

Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an...

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.

Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy.

A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

A compilation of thirteen rare silent films digitized by the Library of Congress, selected for the 2022 Domitor conference theme “Copy/Rights...

A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.

Tillie Todd gifts her wealthy Aunt Sally a dime-store tomato pincushion, falsely claiming it’s handmade. Cousin Percy exposes the lie, vying...

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers...

Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.

Rare footage reveals how stars were created and motion pictures sold, and how the the advent of sound and color changed movies.

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.