Dressler

[dres-ler]

noun

1. Marie Leila Koerber, 1869–1934, U.S. actress, born in Canada.

Example Sentences

My descent began as I watched “Dinner at Eight,” a 1933 classic featuring several early MGM luminaries, including Marie Dressler, a stout actor in her early 60s whose impeccable timing and weary resilience had made her the biggest star in Hollywood.

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Wanting to know more about Dressler, I opened my laptop and down the hole I went.

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I learned that Dressler’s success had come after decades of triumph and travail.

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By 1927 she was nearly broke and considering a housekeeping job when a dear friend, the celebrated screenwriter Frances Marion, offered Dressler a lead role in her next picture: “The Callahans and the Murphys,” a silent comedy so controversial, I read, that it was yanked from circulation and is now considered lost.

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In an email, Alan Dressler of the Carnegie Observatories, who was not part of Dr. Pandya’s work, characterized the result as “important — I do think it is important — extremely important, if it is true.”

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