Marie Dressler Movies

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Conrad Nagel

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Garbo

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Dressler

Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Corinne Griffith

When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Dressler

Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow. Included are clips from many of her films,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sharon Stone

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dick Cavett

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rudy Vallee

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bessie Love

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lillian Gish

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

Tillie and her neighbor Mr. Pipkins are both distraught over their respective marriages. One day, they sneak off to have a lively time at Coney...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

A montage of 13 remarkable short films recently digitized by the Library of Congress, whose themes echo the program of the Domitor 2022 conference,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art Acord

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art Baker

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Fonda

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Dressler

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jackie Cooper

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olive Borden

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Tillie Todd gives her rich Aunt Sally a dime-store tomato pincushion for her birthday, claiming that it is the product of her own hard labor....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marion Davies

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.

Genre: Music

Cast: Alice Brady

The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: June Allyson

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Talmadge

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Bickel

The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable