Love's cruel measure, is pain.

Actress                          

Selected Works:

Christopher Bean 1933 - Abby
... aka Her Sweetheart, Christopher Bean 
... aka The Late Christopher Bean - UK

Dinner at Eight - 1933 - Carlotta Vance
Tugboat Annie - 1933 - Annie Brennan
Prosperity - 1932 - Maggie Warren
Emma - 1932 - Emma Thatcher Smith
Politics - 1931 - Hattie Burns
Reducing - 1931 - Marie Truffle
Min and Bill - 1930 - Min Divot, Inkeeper
Let Us Be Gay - 1930 - Mrs. 'Bouccy' Bouccicault
Caught Short - 1930 - Marie Jones
One Romantic Night - 1930 - Princess Beatrice
The Girl Said No - 1930 - Hettie Brown
Anna Christie - 1930 - Marthy Owens
Chasing Rainbows - 1930 - Bonnie
... aka Road Show 

The Vagabond Lover - 1929 - Mrs. Ethel Bertha Whitehall
Dangerous Females - 1929 - Sarah Bascom
The Divine Lady - 1929 - Mrs. Hart
The Patsy - 1928 - Ma Harrington
... aka The Politic Flapper - UK

Bringing Up Father - 1928 - Annie Moore
Breakfast at Sunrise - 1927 - Queen
The Joy Girl - 1927 - Mrs. Heath
The Callahans and the Murphys - 1927 - Mrs. Callahan

The Red Cross Nurse - 1918
The Agonies of Agnes - 1918
The Scrub Lady - 1917
Fired - 1917
Tillie Wakes Up - 1917 - Tillie Tinkelpaw
... aka Meal Ticket - USA: reissue title
Tillie's Tomato Surprise - 1915 - Tillie Banks
Tillie's Punctured Romance - 1914 - Tillie Banks, Country Girl
... aka For the Love of Tillie 
... aka Marie's Millions 
... aka Tillie's Big Romance 
... aka Tillie's Nightmare

Soundtrack:
1930s
1920s
Emma - 1932 - performer: "Don't You Mind It Honey If the World Goes Wrong"
The Christmas Party - 1931 - "Happy Days Are Here Again" - 1929
... aka A Christmas Story 
... aka Jackie Cooper's Christmas Party - USA: DVD title
Politics - 1931 - "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" - 1900 - uncredited), "Sweet Genevieve" - 1869 - uncredited "Happy Days Are Here Again" - 1929 - uncredited

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 - 1929 - performer: For I’m the Queen ", "Strolling through the Park one day", "Marie, Polly and Bess"
... aka The Hollywood Revue 
Writer:
The Agonies of Agnes - 1918 - story
Fired - 1917 - story 
Producer:
The Agonies of Agnes - 1918 - producer
Director:
Fired - 1917

The Christmas Party - 1931 - uncredited - Herself
... aka A Christmas Story 
... aka Jackie Cooper's Christmas Party - USA: DVD title
Jackie Cooper's Birthday Party - 1931 - Herself
The Voice of Hollywood No. 14 - 1930 - uncredited - Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 - 1930 - Herself, at Premiere
The March of Time - 1930 - Herself, Old Timer Sequence
The Voice of Hollywood No. 2 - 1930 - uncredited - unconfirmed - Herself

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 - 1929 - Herself - as the Queen
... aka The Hollywood Revue 

Actors' Fund Field Day - 1910 - Herself
Archive Footage:
Garbo - 2005 - uncredited - Marthy Owens
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood - 2005 - TV
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies - 2001 - TV - uncredited - Herself
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood - 2000 - TV - uncredited - Herself
That's Entertainment! III - 1994 - uncredited - Herself - clip from "Hollywood Revue"
Zelig - 1983 - uncredited - Herself
That's Entertainment, Part II - 1976 - Clip from 'Dinner at Eight'
Hollywood My Home Town - 1965 - Herself
The Big Parade of Comedy - 1964
Anniversary - 1963
Hollywood Without Make-Up - 1963 - Herself
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Party - 1948 - Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 8: Looking Back - 1946 - Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary - 1945 - Herself
Wilson - 1944 - uncredited - Herself, at WWI rally
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 2 - 1941
Personality Parade - 1938 - uncredited - Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 4 - 1935 - Herself
Movie Memories - 1935 - Herself
Hollywood on Parade No. B-13 - 1934 - Herself
Going Hollywood - 1933 - uncredited - Herself, Premiere Clip
Broadway to Hollywood - 1933 - uncredited - Vaudeville act.                          

Mother Anna Henderson
Father Alexander Rudolph Koerber.                          

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1731 Vine Street.
Each year the Marie Dressler Film Festival is held in her home town of Cobourg, Ontario.