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C157920-4
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- 1933 (Creation)
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ca. 1933. Copy of publicity photograph of "Tugboat Annie" stars Marie Dressler (1869-1934) and Wallace Beery (1885-1949), ca. 1933. The picture was filmed locally using the tug "Arthur Foss" and premiered in Tacoma on Oct. 18, 1933. A box-office success, it would go on to spawn two sequels and a television program. Actors Dressler and Beery would portray a contentious waterfront couple with a son, Robert Young (not pictured) with large aspirations who attempts to persuade his mother to leave his drunken father to join him on the crew of an ocean liner. ALBUM 6.
Motion pictures; Tugboats--Tacoma; Foss Launch & Tug Co. (Tacoma); Beery, Wallace, 1885-1949; Dressler, Marie, 1869-1934; Motion picture premieres--Tacoma--1930-1940; Actors--Tacoma;