- Born Name: Louise Josephine Kerlin
- Birthday: 1878-10-05 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Jack Gardner Jack Norworth
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- Medium: Actress
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Louise Dresser, Louise Dresser (October 5, 1878 – April 24, 1965) was an American actress.Born Louise Josephine Kerlin in Evansville, Indiana, her first film was The Glory of Clementina (1922), and her first starring role was in The City that Never Sleeps (1924).She took her professional last name as a tribute to her good friend, songwriter Paul Dresser. Dresser, the elder brother of novelist Theodore Dreiser, was a popular songwriter of the turn of the 20th century. During the first presentations of the Academy Awards in 1929 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for A Ship Comes In.She portrayed Empress Elizabeth in Paramount Picturess The Scarlet Empress (1934). Dressers last film was Maid of Salem (1937). On television, she appeared in an episode spotlighting Buster Keaton on Ralph Edwardss program, This is Your Life. She had known Keaton since he was a small boy with his parents in vaudeville.She was married twice. First, to Jack Gardner, who died in 1951, and to singer/songwriter, Jack Norworth, whom she divorced. Dresser died in Woodland Hills, California, after surgery for an intestinal ailment, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Dresser died without issue.[edit] Partial FilmographyThe Next Corner (1924)The Eagle (1925)The Goose Woman (1925)The Third Degree (1926)Mr. Wu (1927)The Garden of Eden (1928)Madonna of Avenue A (1929)Mammy (1930)State Fair (1933)The Scarlet Empress (1934)[edit] External linksBiography portalLouise Dresser in a 1900 vaudeville showWikimedia Commons has media related to: Louise DresserLouise Dresser at the Internet Movie DatabaseLouise Dresser at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLouise Dresser at Find a GraveLouise Dresser photo gallery NYP LibraryPersondataNameDresser, LouiseAlternative namesKerlin, Louise JosephineShort descriptionactressDate of birth1878-10-05Place of birthEvansville, Indiana, United StatesDate of death1965-04-24Place of deathWoodland Hills, California, United StatesThis article about a United States film actor or actress born in the 1870s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_DresserCategories: 1878 births | 1965 deaths | American film actors | American silent film actors | Actors from Indiana | People from Evansville, Indiana | Vaudeville performers | American film actor, 1870s birth stubsHidden categories: Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesAsturianuDeutschFrançaisPolskiРусскийСрпски / SrpskiSvenska This page was last modified on 30 January 2011 at 20:26.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();