The Agonies of Agnes
The Agonies of Agnes is a 1918 silent film adventure drama directed by Marie Dressler and starring Marie Dressler.
Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star.
Successful on stage in vaudeville and comic operas, she was also successful in film.
In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy.
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931.
Leaving home at the age of 14, Dressler built a career on stage in traveling theatre troupes.
While not conventionally beautiful, she learned early to appreciate her talent in making people laugh.
In 1892, she started a career on Broadway that lasted into the 1920s, performing comedic roles that allowed her to improvise to get laughs.
From one of her successful Broadway roles, she played the titular role in the first full-length screen comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914), opposite Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand.
She made several shorts, but mostly worked in New York City on stage.
During World War I, along with other celebrities, she helped sell Liberty Bonds.
In 1919, she helped organize the first union for stage chorus players.
Her career declined in the 1920s, and Dressler was reduced to living on her savings while sharing an apartment with a friend.
In 1927, she returned to films at the age of 59 and experienced a remarkable string of successes.
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930–31 for "Min and Bill" and was named the top film star for 1932 and 1933.
She died of cancer in 1934.
Charles Gorman (actor)
Charles Gorman( 1865 – January 25, 1928), was an American actor of the silent era.
He appeared in 86 films between 1908 and 1929.
He died in New York, New York.
He was part of an act called The Gorman Brothers.
They had acted in vaudeville with the likes of Marie Dressler.
Jordan Levy
Jordan Levy( November 4, 1943) is an American Independent politician and talk radio host from Worcester, Massachusetts.
He served as the Mayor of Worcester on two occasions, first from 1981 to 1982 and the second time from 1988 – 93.
He is the host of" The Jordan Levy Show" on WTAG( 580- AM) from 3 – 6 PM on weekdays.
Christopher Bean
Christopher Bean is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Laurence E. Johnson and Sylvia Thalberg, based on the play" The Late Christopher Bean" by Sidney Howard.
The film stars Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Beulah Bondi and Russell Hardie.
The film was released on November 17, 1933, by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer.
It was Marie Dressler's final role before her death from cancer in July 1934.
Hooper Atchley
Lemuel Hooper Atchley (April 30, 1887 – November 17, 1943) was an American film actor.
Born in Ebenezer, Marion County, Tennessee, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Atchley.
He was a 1908 graduate of the Knoxville, Tennessee, school system.
Atchley's first professional acting occurred with a stock theater company in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
He appeared in 214 films between 1929 and 1944 and is known for his appearance as the inconsiderate father in the "Our Gang" film "Birthday Blues" (1932).
Atchley's Broadway credits included "Jarnegan" (1928), "Across the Street" (1924), and "Marie Dressler's "All Star Gambol (1913).
A. Edward Sutherland
Albert Edward Sutherland( January 5, 1895 – December 31, 1973) was a film director and actor.
Born in London, he was from a theatrical family.
His father, Al Sutherland, was a theatre manager and producer and his mother, Julie Ring, was a vaudeville performer.
He was a nephew of both Blanche Ring and Thomas Meighan, who was married to Frances Ring, another of his mother's sisters.
Sutherland acted in 37 known films early in his career, beginning as a Keystone Cop in" Tillie's Punctured Romance"( 1914), which starred Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, and Marie Dressler.
Emma (1932 film)
Emma is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy- drama film released by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, starring Marie Dressler and directed by Clarence Brown.
The Joy Girl
The Joy Girl is a 1927 American two- strip Technicolor silent comedy film directed by Allan Dwan, released by Fox Film Corporation, starring Olive Borden, Neil Hamilton, and Marie Dressler, and based on the short story of the same name by May Edginton.
Thea Foss
Thea Christiansen Foss( 8 June 1857 – 7 June 1927) was the founder of Foss Maritime, the largest tugboat company in the western United States.
She was the real- life person on which the fictional character" Tugboat Annie"( originally portrayed on film in 1933 by Marie Dressler) may have been very loosely based.

Question: Do Jordan Levy and Marie Dressler have the same nationality?
Answer: yes