loliteblue Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Hi everyone! I am starting a new weekly thread with Marie's Dressler's autobiography by Betty Lee. I will share the book with weekly excerpts to all of you on the boards it will be like having your own copy of the book! Until the end of the book . I got it yesterday for valentine's day a present to myself a very good used copy for $7.90 plus shipping and handling from Amazon Barnes & Nobles was too expensive. So mongo i finally got the book and starting tomorrow afternoon expect the first excerpt!.....loliteblue. p.s. I'm so excited i finally have this book,i know i'll be up all nite reading it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomagain77 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Wow......loliteblue I am really looking forward to your posts!!!!! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenwal34 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Great idea Loite. I'll be checking it often! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Lolite, the name of the book is "The Unlikeliest Star" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Yes i know mongo i've been on cloud nine since i got the book i was still excited when posting and put the wrong wording in Marie was the unlikeliest star of Hollywood in the 20's and 30's but she was in my opinion the most beloved star in Hollywood...... Sorry for the delay in posting stayed up all nite i couldn't put the book down even for a minute and i over slept...... I hope you all understand lolite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 PROLOGUE: "She was homely, overweight, and decidely over the hill but in the early 30's Marie Dressler easily out drew such cinematic sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow. To move audiences during the great depression she was the symbol of every women.Marie was champion whether it be selling the most war bonds during world war one or a labor activist, an early feminist, a champion of the underdog Marie was all this and more that made her an endearment to her audiences. She was a born an entrepreneur not always sucessful but always eager to try her luck whether it be on a coney Island boardwalk in london's West End or in a Vermont as a dairy farmer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 She was a student of public mood and taste even before the public was aware of it, she starred in the first silent film comedies produced in the U.S.A. and produced even some of them herself! When her chance came for her to do HOLLYWOOD TALKIES she grabbed the brass ring with both handsand refused to let it go until she became the most celebrated performer on the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Marie was loyal to a fault yet stingy she believed she was a born aristocrat and acted like one whether it was a persona was yet to be seen. She would brake contracts in a whim make up tales for publicity to get the name of the current play she was in mentioned. She would use everyounce of her strenght and money for an acting part and she was atrouper in the last years of life doing three films at once she had to lie down on a sofa between scenes she was weak & tired already dying from cancer Marie didn't want to disappoint cadst or crew..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 The New York Herald Tribune editorialist wrote the day after her death in 1934 "Marie Dressler's return from semi-obscurity to a dazzling sucess had a romantically spectacular quality about it that Hollywood could appreciate just as it was nearly stupified by the discovery that any woman of more than sixty could actually hold a great following merely because she was an able actress" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 she was a master of her craft she spoke honestly to her audiences whether she was clowning around in a 1912 vaudeville show or making them laugh in a 1916 silent comedy or moving audiences to both gufaaws and tears in a depression -era photoplay troubled people out there in the comforting dark always recognized her as one of themselves...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Good Job Lolite! I too love Marie Dressler! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 thanks for the encouragement Feaito! Excerpts tomorrow same spot same thread i'm enjoying the book with each page and glad i can share it with all of you fine people on these boards....lolite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extrvpretty8 Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 I read that she had an affair with Garbo.So! she was a lesbian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Who gives a hoot! Mongo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garboloygrant Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Ain't that the truth, Mongo! The only place where I read that was in Garbo: Her Story, by Anton Gronowicz (1990). That book was full of illusions, lies, less than half truths. Mr. Gronowicz had a fixation on Garbo. The book was not published until after his death, and also Garbo's. It was trashed by the critics and by representatives of Garbo's estate. If anyone has the time, I suggest you pick up a copy at your local library and read it. It is ludicrous and you will see where I am coming from after you read it. Please, don't misunderstand me. I'm not bashing Mr. Gronowicz because Garbo is my all-time favorite actress. The stories he tells about her are ridiculous! And as for her being bisexual, who wasn't?! It was the "in" thing during the 20's and 30's. It was the Jazz Age and everybody was trying everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 In the book "Marie Dressler The Unlikeliest star by Betty Lee. She does humor at a marriage takes place between Marie and a man!......... ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL I can't give you a book review as i would like to it might get me and TCM in great difficulty without the author's permission.... But i am suggesting to buy the book a used copy on amazon.com Barnes & Nobles has it brand new hard copy its a good read. I just was so excited to share the book with all of you i just wasn't using my noodle in thinking about copyright laws and such A note to the author my apologizes and thank you for a great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Thanks Lolite for your effort. I wouldn't think there's any problem in quoting excerpts from the book, just for private use only and telling the source of the quotes, just as when someone writes a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 Just one more bit of Marie Dressler trivia Lance Barrymore the father of Ethel, John, Lionnel, told Marie she would be better as a comediannne, she was gifted in that way he observed...... I'm awful glad Marie took Lance's advice to heart!..... loliteblue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spencerl964 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 I don't know if anyone has as yet cited this, but as far as any official Box-0ffice Records go-(1932-) *Marie Dressler-(1869-1934)-(of whom is yet another resident in Glendale's mammth "Forest Lawn") Is officially the 1st noted annual B.O. champion. For 1932 an 1933 respectively. She is followed for '34 by Will Rogers-(1879-1935) & Shirley Temple-(1928-) ruled ticket sales from 1935-38. (P.S. for the record & going back to an article I posted. "Where Hollywoods Giants Rest" Her best known co-star *Wallace Beery-(1885-1949)-(known to be the biggest sob in his time) Is also interred somewhere same ppark-(*Dressler is in "Great Maus." with the legendary likes of: *"The King: Gable," Lombard, Harlow, *Selznick, *Thalberg, *N. Shearer, W.C. Fields, H. Lloyd, Sid Grauman, Red Skelton & "Man of a Thousand Faces-Lon Chaney, Sr."-(unmarked) are also inside this now off-limits maus.-(to the general public anyway) She did pretty good for a former cleaning lady, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spencerl964 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 This is off the topic posted here. However, to garboloygrant, in my estimation "The Goddess: Greta Garbo"-(1905-90) is the greatest motion picture actress of all-time!!!-(true, she's an acquired taste. However, even all-time OSCAR Champion: *Kate Hepburn thought so as well) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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