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The Laugh Parade: Tugboat Annie

BBC One
on BBC One London

Tonight's film in a new series of comedy films stars Marie Dressler, Wallace Berry with Maureen O'Sullivan, Robert Young in one of Hollywood's most popular vintage comedies. Marie Dressler, who made her screen debut opposite Chaplin in Tillie's Punctured Romance, plays Annie, skipper of a river tugboat battling against seemingly impossible odds to keep her rascally husband (Wallace Beery) sober for the day when their son returns as an ocean Captain.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Norman Reilly Raine
Director:
Mervyn Leroy
Annie:
Marie Dressler
Terry:
Wallace Beery
Alec:
Robert Young
Pat:
Maureen O'Sullivan
Severn:
William Robertson
Shiftless:
Tammany Young
Pete:
Jack Pennick
Sam:
Paul Hurst
Alec as a child:
Frankie Darrow
Source: Radio Times

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