Tugboat Annie
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.
Dressler and Beery were MGM's most popular screen team at that time, having recently made the bittersweet" Min and Bill"( 1930) together, for which Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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 supposedly based on the life of Thea Foss of Tacoma, Washington.
There is also a theory that her character is loosely based on Kate A. Sutton, secretary and dispatcher for the Providence Steamboat Company during the 1920s.
" Tugboat Annie" also features Robert Young and Maureen O'Sullivan as the requisite pair of young lovers.
Captain Clarence Howden piloted Annie's tugboat Narcissus( real name" Wallowa"), which was owned by Foss Tug and Barge of Tacoma and had been leased to MGM for the movie.
Howden's son Richard Howden is seen rolling rope during the credits.
Filmed in Seattle, Washington," Tugboat Annie" used local residents as extras, including then- mayor John F. Dore.
The tugboat used in the film, renamed" Arthur Foss" in 1934, is the oldest wooden tugboat afloat in the world and remains preserved by Northwest Seaport in Seattle.
Captain Tugboat Annie
Captain Tugboat Annie is a 1945 second sequel to the classic "Tugboat Annie" (1933), this time starring Jane Darwell as Annie and Edgar Kennedy as Horatio Bullwinkle.
The movie was directed by Phil Rosen, and is also known as Tugboat Annie's Son.
The original film starred Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, and Maureen O'Sullivan.
The first sequel, called "Tugboat Annie Sails Again", was released in 1940 starring Marjorie Rambeau as Annie, Alan Hale, Sr.
as Horatio Bullwinkle, Jane Wyman, and Ronald Reagan.
There is also a 1957 Canadian-filmed television series, "The Adventures of Tugboat Annie", starring Minerva Urecal.
Dana Blankstein
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Olav Aaraas
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He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Tugboat Annie Sails Again is a 1940 American comedy romance film directed by Lewis Seiler.
It is a sequel to" Tugboat Annie"( 1933).
Marjorie Rambeau took over the late Marie Dressler's role, and the supporting cast included Alan Hale, Sr., Jane Wyman, and Ronald Reagan.
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Norman Reilly Raine
Norman Reilly Raine( 23 June 1894 – 19 July 1971) was an American screenwriter, creator of" Tugboat Annie" and winner of an Oscar for the screenplay of" The Life of Emile Zola"( 1937).
Phil Rosen
Philip E. Rosen (May 8, 1888 – October 22, 1951) was an American film director and cinematographer.
He directed 142 films between 1915 and 1949.
He was born in Marienburg, German Empire
(now, Malbork, Poland), grew up in Machias, Maine, and died in Hollywood, California of a heart attack.
He was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Rosen was married to model and actress Joyzelle Joyner.

Question: Why did the director of film Captain Tugboat Annie die?
Answer: heart attack