Louise Dresser

Actor

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Also Known As

Louise Kerlin, Luise Dresser

Birth Place

Evansville, Indiana, USA

Born

October 05, 1878

Died

April 24, 1965

Filmography

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Maid of Salem (1937)

Ellen Clarke, Barbara's aunt

The County Chairman (1935)

Mrs. Mary Rigby

The World Moves On (1934)

Baroness von Gerhardt

David Harum (1934)

Servants' Entrance (1934)

A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)

Katherine Comstock

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Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) About Your Beauty

Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) What Do You Think Of Catherine?

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Maid of Salem (1937)

Ellen Clarke, Barbara's aunt

The County Chairman (1935)

Mrs. Mary Rigby

The World Moves On (1934)

Baroness von Gerhardt

David Harum (1934)

Servants' Entrance (1934)

A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)

Katherine Comstock

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Empress Elizabeth

State Fair (1933)

Doctor Bull (1933)

Song of the Eagle (1933)

Cradle Song (1933)

Stepping Sisters (1932)

Lightnin' (1930)

The 3 Sisters (1930)

This Mad World (1930)

Not Quite Decent (1929)

The Madonna of Avenue A (1929)

Mother Knows Best (1928)

The Garden of Eden (1928)

A Ship Comes In (1928)

The Air Circus (1928)

White Flannels (1927)

Mrs. Jacob Politz

Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926)

The Third Degree (1926)

The Blind Goddess (1926)

Mrs. Eileen Clayton

Padlocked (1926)

Everybody's Acting (1926)

Anastasia Potter

Fifth Avenue (1926)

The Goose Woman (1925)

Mary Holmes/Marie de Nardi

The Eagle (1925)

Enticement (1925)

Mrs. Samuel Murray

Cheap Kisses (1924)

Jane Dillingham

The Next Corner (1924)

Nina Race, Elsie's mother

The City That Never Sleeps (1924)

What Shall I Do? (1924)

Salomy Jane (1923)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)

Mrs. Effie Floud

Prodigal Daughters (1923)

Woman-Proof (1923)

To the Ladies (1923)

Mrs. Kincaid, her husband's boss

The Glory of Clementina (1922)

Burning Sands (1922)

Kate Bindane, Muriel's friend

Enter Madame (1922)

Mrs. Flora Preston

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Scarlett Empress - Lobby Cards

Here are several Lobby Cards from Paramount's The Scarlett Empress (1934), starring Marlene Dietrich. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) About Your Beauty Director Josef von Sternberg consumes expensive sets and costumes as Marlene Dietrich (as Princess Sophia, who will become Catherine The Great) joins her Prussian father (C. Aubrey Smith) and his court meeting John Lodge as the commanding Count Alexei, emissary of her Russian fiancè, The Scarlet Empress, 1934.

Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) What Do You Think Of Catherine? Following another grandiose montage depicting director Josef von Sternberg’s imperial Russia, Marlene Dietrich as German Princess Sophia who will become Catherine the Great, arrives Moscow, met by current Empress Elizabeth (Louise Dresser) escorted by Alexei (John Lodge) and her mother (Olive Tell), and finally meeting her betrothed, the daffy Grand Duke Peter, Sam Jaffe, in Paramount’s The Scarlet Empress, 1934.

Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Open, A Little Princess Credits and opening from Josef von Sternberg's 1934 Marlene Dietrich vehicle The Scarlet Empress, with Dietrich's daughter, Maria Sieber (billed as Maria Riva) as the young Catherine the Great, C. Aubrey Smith and Olive Tell her Prussian parents, Jane Darwell and Clyde David as servants.

State Fair (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Hog Or No Hog! Opening the hit original version of the novel by Philip Strong that would become the basis for the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein movie musical, farmer Frake (Will Rogers) deals with his hog, his wife (Louise Dresser) and daughter (Janet Gaynor), in State Fair, 1933.

Garden Of Eden, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) I Would LIke To Be... In Monte Carlo for a splurge bankrolled by her motherly friend Rosa (Louise Dresser), Toni (Corinne Griffith) lights up the night with voyeur Richard (Charles Ray), nice tricks by director Lewis Milestone in The Garden Of Eden, 1928.

Garden Of Eden, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) The Puritan Costume Trained singer Toni (Corinne Griffith) is tricked by Budapest skin club owner Madame Bauer (Maude George) into wearing a see-through dress for patron Von Glessing (Lowell Sherman), in Lewis Milestone's The Garden Of Eden, 1928.

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