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Louise Dresser is a Actor American born on 3 october 1878 at Evansville (USA)

Louise Dresser

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Birth name Louise Josephine Kerlin
Nationality USA
Birth 3 october 1878 at Evansville (USA)
Death 24 april 1965 (at 86 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Louise Dresser (October 17, 1878 – April 24, 1965) was an American actress.

Born Louise Josephine Kerlin in Evansville, Indiana. Her father was a train conductor who died when she was fifteen years old. She had acted on the stage previously, being a Vaudeville singer at age fifteen and her first film was The Glory of Clementina (1922), and her first starring role was in The City that Never Sleeps (1924).

She took her professional last name as a tribute to her good friend, songwriter Paul Dresser. Dresser was a popular songwriter of the turn of the 20th century. During the first presentations of the Academy Awards in 1929 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for A Ship Comes In.

She portrayed Empress Elizabeth in Paramount Pictures's The Scarlet Empress (1934). Dresser's last film was Maid of Salem (1937). On television, she appeared in an episode spotlighting Buster Keaton on Ralph Edwards's program, This is Your Life. She had known Keaton since he was a small boy with his parents in vaudeville.

She was married twice. First, to singer/songwriter, Jack Norworth, whom she divorced and then to Jack Gardner, until his death in 1950. Dresser died in Woodland Hills, California, after surgery for an intestinal ailment, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Dresser died without issue.

Best films

State Fair
State Fair
(1933)
(Actress) A Ship Comes In
A Ship Comes In
(1928)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Louise Dresser (45 films)

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Actress

The Shadow of Chikara
The Shadow of Chikara (1977)
, 1h54
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Western
Actors Betty Bronson, Joe Don Baker, Sondra Locke, Ford Sterling, Joy N. Houck, Jr., Louise Dresser
Rating54% 2.703582.703582.703582.703582.70358
Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure: diamonds hidden in a cave. However, the soldiers find they are being followed by a mysterious hunter (or hunters) who may have a connection to a mythic eagle spirit.
Maid of Salem
Maid of Salem (1937)
, 1h25
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard, Louise Dresser, Benny Bartlett
Roles Ellen Clarke
Rating64% 3.2410653.2410653.2410653.2410653.241065
It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, who has an affair with an adventurer. She is sentenced as a witch, but saved by him.
The County Chairman
The County Chairman (1935)
, 1h20
Directed by John G. Blystone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Will Rogers, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Louise Dresser, Stepin Fetchit
Roles Mrs. Rigby
Rating62% 3.1495053.1495053.1495053.1495053.149505
A political party boss in Wyoming must decide to either do what's right and lose the election or do what's wrong and win it.
The Scarlet Empress
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
, 1h44
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith, Gavin Gordon
Roles Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
Rating74% 3.7435753.7435753.7435753.7435753.743575
Sophia Frederica (Dietrich) is the daughter of a minor German prince and an ambitious mother. She is brought to Russia by Count Alexei (Lodge) at the behest of Empress Elizabeth (Dresser) to marry her nephew, Grand Duke Peter (played as a half-wit by Jaffe in his film debut). The overbearing Elizabeth renames her Catherine and reinforces the demand the new bride issue an heir to the throne.
Servants' Entrance
Servants' Entrance (1934)
, 1h28
Directed by Walt Disney, Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, Louise Dresser, Astrid Allwyn
Roles Mrs. Hansen
Rating69% 3.466043.466043.466043.466043.46604
En Norvège, Heiress Hedda Nilson, une jeune fille de bonne famille dont le père est un riche banquier est sur le point de se marier. Persuadée que ses parents subissent un important revers financier, elle décide de trouver un emploi pour aider le foyer familial. Avec son fiance, Karl Berghoff, elle entreprend ainsi de vivre durant trois mois, le quotidien de gens simples en devenant elle domestique, lui chauffeur personnel....Mais bientôt les complications arrivent.
The World Moves On
The World Moves On (1934)
, 1h44
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Reginald Denny, Sig Ruman, Louise Dresser, Raul Roulien
Roles Baroness von Gerhardt
Rating59% 2.9509752.9509752.9509752.9509752.950975
The story opens 185 years ago when two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War I and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
Doctor Bull
Doctor Bull (1933)
, 1h17
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Berton Churchill, Louise Dresser, Andy Devine, Rochelle Hudson
Roles Mme Herbert Banning
Rating63% 3.1972153.1972153.1972153.1972153.197215
Dans une petite ville de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, le docteur George Bull se démène auprès des habitants, mais devient vite une source de commérages. On lui reproche notamment sa présence régulière dans la maison d'une jeune veuve, Mrs Cardmaker, à la tête de la ferme qui approvisionne le village, mais aussi ses façons débonnaires. Médecin de l'ancienne école, il prescrit plus qu'à son tour de l'huile de ricin pour les petits maux dont il ne se soucie guère mais passe chaque jour de longs instants au chevet d'un homme paralysé des jambes qu'il tente de faire remarcher…
State Fair
State Fair (1933)
, 1h40
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Louise Dresser, Norman Foster
Roles Melissa Frake
Rating66% 3.343143.343143.343143.343143.34314
Un fermier de l'Iowa et sa famille se rendent à la foire annuelle de Des Moines, la capitale de l'Iowa. Ses enfants y trouveront l'amour, avec plus ou moins de bonheur.
Three-Cornered Moon
Three-Cornered Moon (1933)
, 1h17
Directed by Elliott Nugent, Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland, Wallace Ford, Gale Sondergaard, Lyda Roberti
Rating63% 3.1935753.1935753.1935753.1935753.193575
Difficulties overtake a well-to-do family in New York when they lose all their money in the Great Crash of 1929.
Caught
Caught (1931)
, 1h8
Directed by Edward Sloman
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Richard Arlen, Louise Dresser, Frances Dee, Tom Kennedy, Syd Saylor, Jim Mason
Roles Calamity
Rating68% 3.409543.409543.409543.409543.40954
Mammy
Mammy (1930)
, 1h24
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Al Jolson, Lowell Sherman, Lois Moran, Noah Beery Sr., Louise Dresser, Hobart Bosworth
Roles Mother Fuller
Rating59% 2.9523752.9523752.9523752.9523752.952375
The story deals with the joys and tribulations of a travelling minstrel troupe known as the Merry Meadow Minstrels. Al Jolson plays as a blackface endman while Lowell Sherman plays as the interlocutor. Hobart Bosworth plays as the owner of the show, while his daughter, played by Lois Moran, serves as Al Jolson's love interest in the picture. Sherman's character, however, is also in love with Moran's. The show is in a miserable state until Jolson entertains a sheriff and manages to convince him to invest in the show. The show becomes very successful thanks to this investment and Jolson is eventually able to visit his mother. Some time after he returns, he tells Moran that he loves her and this causes Sherman to become jealous. After a heated argument between Jolson and Sherman over Moran, a character played by Mitchell Lewis, who is upset because he was caught cheating at cards, puts real bullets in Jolson's stage gun. Since Jolson pretends to shoot Sherman in the minstrel show act, Lewis knows that this will result in Sherman's death and that Jolson will be blamed for the murder. After Sherman is shot, Jolson is arrested but manages to escape and take a freight train out of town. Eventually, Lewis confesses to the crime and Jolson is thereby proven to be innocent.