Tugboat Annie
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| Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Produced by | Irving Thalberg (uncredited) |
| Written by |
Norman Reilly Raine Zelda Sears Eve Greene |
| Starring |
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Robert Young Maureen O'Sullivan |
| Music by | Paul Marquardt (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Gregg Toland |
| Editing by | Blanche Sewell |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | 1933 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country |
 United States |
| Language | English |
Tugboat Annie is a 1933 movie 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 Min and Bill (1930) together, for which Dressler had won an Oscar.
The boisterous Tugboat Annie character first appeared in a series of stories in the Saturday Evening Post written by the author Norman Reilly Raine which were based on the life of Thea Foss of Tacoma, Washington.[1]
Tugboat Annie also features Robert Young and Maureen O'Sullivan as the requisite pair of young lovers. The movie was written by Norman Reilly Raine and Zelda Sears, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
Cast
- Marie Dressler as Annie Brennan
- Wallace Beery as Terry Brennan
- Robert Young as Alec Brennan
- Maureen O'Sullivan as Pat Severn
Sequels
A sequel called Tugboat Annie Sails Again was released in 1940 starring Marjorie Rambeau, Alan Hale, Jane Wyman, and Ronald Reagan, and another called Captain Tugboat Annie in 1945 starring Jane Darwell and Edgar Kennedy. There is also a 1957 Canadian-filmed television series, The Adventures of Tugboat Annie, starring Minerva Urecal.
References in other media
In The Railway Series book, The Twin Engines, Gordon the Big Engine references Tugboat Annie when he teases Donald and Douglas about their deep-tone whistles.
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