Tugboat Annie

1933
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1h 26m

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Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in Tugboat Annie (1933)

Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.

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Marie Dressler

Annie

Wallace Beery

Terry

Robert Young

Alec

Maureen O'Sullivan

Willard Robertson

Severn

Tammany Young

Shif'less

Frankie Darro

Alec, as a Child

Jack Pennick

Pete

Paul Hurst

Oscar Apfel

Reynolds
(uncredited)

Jessie Arnold

Miss Blake - Severn's Secretary
(uncredited)

Vince Barnett

Cab Driver
(uncredited)

Robert Barrat

First Mate of 'Glacier Queen'
(uncredited)

Wallis Clark

Second Banker
(uncredited)

Willie Fung

Chow - the Cook
(uncredited)

Charles Giblyn

Banker John Wilcox
(uncredited)

Marilyn Harris

Pat Severn, as a Child
(uncredited)

Sam Harris

Onlooker on Schooner
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The character Tugboat Annie is based on Thea Foss (1857-1927) who founded the Foss Launch & Tug Co. in Tacoma, Washington in 1889. Today, Foss Maritime owns the largest fleet of tugboats on the U.S. West Coast.

Quotes
Alexander 'Alec' Brennan: Mother! Are you all right? Did he strike you?
Annie Brennan: No! Your father has never struck me. Except in self-defense.

Connections
Edited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)

Soundtracks
Sailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main
(uncredited)
Written by Godfrey Marks

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7/10

On the Waterfront

Tugboat captain Marie Dressler (as Annie) manages to rear a son and run the family business, with only spotty help from alcoholic husband Wallace Beery (as Terry Brennan). "Tugboat Annie" sailed to the top of box office lists, helmed by the tremendous appeal of Ms. Dressler. This is one of her finest and most fondly remembered performances. Dressler would be good anyway, but gets terrific help from Mr. Berry. He and Dressler possess the chemistry and craft to pull off the slightly weak and episodic story.

The weakness is in the bland relationship essayed by Robert Young (as Alexander "Alec" Brennan) and pretty Maureen O'Sullivan (as Patricia "Pat" Severn). Frankie Darro (as young Alec) is fine, studying algebra and history with Dressler in the early scenes, but you wonder how Dressler plus Berry (or anyone) could have netted Mr. Young. The relationship between Dressler and Berry is the story's strength, with the co-stars putting comic pathos in the classic "love triangle" involving wife, husband and alcohol.

******* Tugboat Annie (8/4/33) Mervyn LeRoy ~ Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan