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.
Theatrical release poster
Lobby card featuring Dressler and Beery.
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director, producer and actor. In his youth he played juvenile roles in vaudeville and silent film comedies.
LeRoy in 1958
Aerial view of the aftermath to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire
On the set of Oh, Kay! (1928), publicity still. L to R, LeRoy, Colleen Moore