This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media in February 2013. The title of Marie Dressler's autobiography, Confessions of an Ugly Duckling sums up her career in a nutshell. Despite being a trained opera [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:15AM on November 9, 2012