biography
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Dressler, Marie
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originally Leila Koerber
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| female
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| (1869–1934)
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| biography:
| Stage and film actress, born in Cobourg, Ontario, SE Canada. This versatile comic actress began her career at 14 with a touring theatrical company, and for many years performed in vaudeville, plays, and musical productions, enjoying her greatest success with the song, ‘Heaven will protect the working girl’. In 1910, she began a film career that went from Mack Sennett comedies - including Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) with Chaplin - to Anna Christie (1930) and Min and Bill (1931), for which she won an Oscar. |
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