Louise Dresser Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for an Academy Awards during the very first awards presentation ceremony in 1929
• Did charity work for the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital
• Was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, Calif
• At the age of 15, she was already a vaudeville singer
• Shared the marquees of turn-of-the-century theaters with such theater stars as Lillian Russell, Anna Held, Blanche Ring and Charles Frohman
• Many critics believe the original "State Fair" to be her greatest film
• Her favorite pastime was gardening, which she focused on after retiring
• Met Buster Keaton when he was a small boy because his parents were in vaudeville
• On a tour of the old Keith Circuit, she was accompanied by a young George Gershwin
• Chose her professional name as a tribute to her good friend, songwriter Paul Dresser