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Tugboat Annie is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, written by Norman Reilly Raine and Zelda Sears, and starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat.
Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together. Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
Tugboat Annie: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan. Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
- (818)
- Comedy
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1933-08-04
Annie Brennan (Marie Dressler) is a salty tugboat captain and Terry (Wallace Beery) is her hard-drinking first-mate husband. They support their son Alec (Robert Young) who rises to be the captain of a big ocean liner.
Tugboat Annie, featuring the well-known team of Dressler and Wallace Beery (1885-1949), appeared in theaters only weeks after filming was complete. Background scenes feature Lake Union, Queen Anne Hill, and Puget Sound.
Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business. Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery.
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Tugboat Annie (MGM) is not merely a typical Marie Dressier picture; it crowns all her previous works because its heroine is even more raffish, kindly, troubled, brave and energetic than the...
