Louise Dresser

Born: 1878-10-03


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The Scarlet Empress

as Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
Released: 1934-05-09

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine...

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State Fair

as Melissa Frake
Released: 1933-02-10

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

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The Eagle

as The Czarina, Catherine II
Released: 1925-11-08

Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II....

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The World Moves On

as Baroness von Gerhardt
Released: 1934-06-27

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear...

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A Ship Comes In

as Mrs. Pleznik
Released: 1928-01-04

Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.

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Mr. Wu

as Mrs. Gregory
Released: 1927-03-26

When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

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The Garden of Eden

as Rosa
Released: 1928-02-04

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte...

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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1961-05-24

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life,...

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Maid of Salem

as Ellen Clarke
Released: 1937-02-12

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes...

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Servants' Entrance

as Mrs. Hansen
Released: 1934-09-25

Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a...

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The Goose Woman

as Marie de Nardi / Mary Holmes
Released: 1925-08-02

A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in...

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Doctor Bull

as Mme Herbert Banning
Released: 1933-09-22

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers...

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The Air Circus

as Mrs. Blake
Released: 1928-09-29

Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.

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Woman-Proof

as Wilma Rockwood
Released: 1923-10-28

At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.

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Everybody's Acting

as Anastasia Potter
Released: 1926-10-04

Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of...

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Broken Hearts of Hollywood

as Virginia Perry
Released: 1926-08-14

Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a...

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Mammy

as Mother Fuller
Released: 1930-03-26

Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and...

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The County Chairman

as Mrs. Rigby
Released: 1935-01-11

Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in...

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The Fog

as Mrs. Theddon
Released: 1923-01-18

Silent World War I (WWI) romantic melodrama (based on the novel by William Dudley Pelly) .

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The Third Degree

as Alicia Daly
Released: 1926-12-01

Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome...

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Cradle Song

as Prioress
Released: 1933-11-19

In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be...

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Lightnin'

as Mrs. Mary Jones
Released: 1930-11-28

Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by...

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Prodigal Daughters

as Mrs. Forbes
Released: 1923-04-15

Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J....

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Not Quite Decent

as Mame Jarrow
Released: 1929-07-02

On her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a...

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David Harum

as Polly Harum
Released: 1934-03-02

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with...

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Padlocked

as Mrs. Alcott
Released: 1926-08-02

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Caught

as Calamity
Released: 1931-08-08

Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint...

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A Girl of the Limberlost

as Katherine Comstock
Released: 1934-10-14

Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her...

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This Mad World

as Pauline Parisot - Paul's Mother
Released: 1930-04-11

Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and...

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Cheap Kisses

as Jane Dillingham
Released: 1924-12-21

Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes...

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To the Ladies

as Mrs. Kincaid
Released: 1924-10-06

Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are...

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Enticement

as Mrs. Samuel Murray
Released: 1925-03-01

Romantic complications and tragedy ensue when two former lovers, one of them now married to...

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Fifth Avenue

as Claudine Kemp
Released: 1926-01-24

When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to...

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The Three Sisters

as Marta
Released: 1930-04-20

A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola...

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White Flannels

as Mrs. Jacob Politz
Released: 1927-03-19

A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son...

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Song of the Eagle

as Emma Hoffman
Released: 1933-04-27

This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control...

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Ruggles of Red Gap

as Mrs. Effie Floud
Released: 1923-10-07

An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.

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Percy

as Mrs. Rogers
Released: 1925-04-05

Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.

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Stepping Sisters

as Mrs. Cissie Ramsey
Released: 1932-01-09

A trio of former burlesque dancers now living in high society try to prevent their past...

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The Next Corner

as Nina Race
Released: 1924-02-18

While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who...

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Madonna of Avenue A

as Georgia Morton
Released: 1929-06-21

A young woman is shocked to discover that her mother, who she always believed was a stylish and...

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The Oscars

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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This Is Your Life

as Self
First aired: 1952-10-01

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...

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