Min and Bill is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-drama film, directed by George W. Hill and starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. Adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson from Lorna Moon's 1929 novel Dark Star, the film tells the story of dockside innkeeper Min's tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter, Nancy, while loving and fighting with boozy fisherman Bill, who resides at the inn. The picture was a runaway hit. In 1931, the studio released a Spanish-language version of Min and Bill, La fruta amarga, directed by Arthur Gregor and starring Virginia Fábregas and Juan de Landa.
1930 re-release poster
From the original trailer
From the original 1930 M-G-M trailer
Min, Bill and Nancy, the cobbled-together family that snared Marie Dressler an Oscar
Leila Marie Koerber, known by her stage name Marie Dressler, was a Canadian stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star.
Dressler in 1930
Music for The Lady Slavey (1896) Dressler had her first starring role as household servant Flo Honeydew, a role she performed for four years.
With Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin in Tillie's Punctured Romance
The Scrublady (1917)