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Louise Dresser

Date of birth: 1878-10-03

Place of birth: Evansville, Indiana, USA

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Lulu Josephine Kerlin, Louise Josephine Kerlin

Louise Dresser

Biography

Movie Credits

The Scarlet Empress
3.4

The Scarlet Empress

1934-05-09

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

The Blind Goddess
0

The Blind Goddess

1926-04-04

Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. Hi

To the Ladies
0

To the Ladies

1924-10-06

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

Cheap Kisses
0

Cheap Kisses

1924-12-21

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

Percy
0

Percy

1925-04-05

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

State Fair
3.1

State Fair

1933-02-10

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

Doctor Bull
3.3

Doctor Bull

1933-09-22

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

The Three Sisters
0

The Three Sisters

1930-04-20

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

Mammy
2.9

Mammy

1930-03-26

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

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
0

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

1961-05-24

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

Maid of Salem
3

Maid of Salem

1937-02-12

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

The Eagle
3.1

The Eagle

1925-11-08

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

A Ship Comes In
2.7

A Ship Comes In

1928-01-04

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

The Garden of Eden
2.8

The Garden of Eden

1928-02-04

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

The Goose Woman
3

The Goose Woman

1925-08-02

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

Ruggles of Red Gap
0

Ruggles of Red Gap

1923-10-07

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

The Air Circus
0

The Air Circus

1928-09-29

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

Cradle Song
0

Cradle Song

1933-11-19

In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 1

A Girl of the Limberlost
0.5

A Girl of the Limberlost

1934-10-14

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

David Harum
3.5

David Harum

1934-03-02

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

This Mad World
3.5

This Mad World

1930-04-11

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

Mr. Wu
2.9

Mr. Wu

1927-03-26

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

Gigolo
0

Gigolo

1926-10-03

The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squande

Everybody's Acting
0

Everybody's Acting

1926-10-04

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

Not Quite Decent
0

Not Quite Decent

1929-07-02

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

Servants' Entrance
0

Servants' Entrance

1934-09-25

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

The World Moves On
2.8

The World Moves On

1934-06-27

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

Song of the Eagle
0

Song of the Eagle

1933-04-27

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

Lightnin'
1.9

Lightnin'

1930-11-28

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

Mother Knows Best
0

Mother Knows Best

1928-10-28

A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don

Stepping Sisters
0

Stepping Sisters

1932-01-09

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

Caught
3

Caught

1931-08-08

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

Enter Madame
2.8

Enter Madame

1922-11-13

Directed by Wallace Worsley.

Madonna of Avenue A
0

Madonna of Avenue A

1929-06-21

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

Enticement
0

Enticement

1925-03-01

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

The Next Corner
0

The Next Corner

1924-02-18

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

Prodigal Daughters
0.5

Prodigal Daughters

1923-04-15

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

Woman-Proof
0

Woman-Proof

1923-10-28

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

The County Chairman
2.5

The County Chairman

1935-01-11

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

Broken Hearts of Hollywood
3.3

Broken Hearts of Hollywood

1926-08-14

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

The Third Degree
0

The Third Degree

1926-12-01

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

Fifth Avenue
0

Fifth Avenue

1926-01-24

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

The Fog
0

The Fog

1923-01-18

Nathan Forge, romantic son of a cruel businessman, publishes in a local newspaper a poem about a gir

Padlocked
3

Padlocked

1926-08-02

White Flannels
0

White Flannels

1927-03-19

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

Burning Sands
0

Burning Sands

1922-09-03

A kindly old sheik is being deceived by his villainous son, who seeks to destroy his father by uniti

The City That Never Sleeps
0

The City That Never Sleeps

1924-09-29

Mother O'day, running her saloon after the death of her husband, places her daughter in the care of