- Tugboat Annie
Infobox Film
name = Tugboat Annie
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director =Mervyn LeRoy
producer =Irving Thalberg (uncredited)
writer = Norman Reilly Raine
Zelda Sears
Eve Greene
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starring =Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Robert Young Maureen O'Sullivan
music = Paul Marquardt (uncredited)
cinematography =Gregg Toland
editing = Blanche Sewell
distributor =MGM
released = 1933
runtime = 86 minutes
country = USA
language = English
imdb_id = 0024701"Tugboat Annie" is a 1933 movie starring
Marie Dressler andWallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat. Dressler and Beery wereMGM 's most popular screen team at that time, having recently made "Min and Bill " (1930) together, for which Dressler had won an Oscar.The boisterous "Tugboat Annie" character first appeared in a series of stories in the "
Saturday Evening Post " written by the author Norman Reilly Raine which were based on the life of Thea Foss ofTacoma, Washington . [ [http://www.everythingnorwegian.everythingscandinavian.com/miscellaneous/tugboatannie.html "Tugboat Annie"] ]"Tugboat Annie" also features Robert Young and
Maureen O'Sullivan as the requisite pair of young lovers. The movie was written by Norman Reilly Raine and Zelda Sears, and directed byMervyn LeRoy .Cast
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Marie Dressler as Annie Brennan
*Wallace Beery as Terry Brennan
*Robert Young as Alec Brennan
*Maureen O'Sullivan as Pat Severnequels
A sequel called "
Tugboat Annie Sails Again " was released in 1940 starringMarjorie Rambeau ,Alan Hale ,Jane Wyman , andRonald Reagan , and another called "Captain Tugboat Annie " in 1945 starringJane Darwell andEdgar Kennedy . There is also a 1957Canadian -filmed television series, "The Adventures of Tugboat Annie ", starringMinerva Urecal .References
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