Tugboat Annie (1933)
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Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband Terry (Wallace Beery) is a lazy, bragging drunk. Robert Young plays their son Alec, who has big ambitions and winds up as captain of a fancy ocean liner. The ocean liner's… More Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband Terry (Wallace Beery) is a lazy, bragging drunk. Robert Young plays their son Alec, who has big ambitions and winds up as captain of a fancy ocean liner. The ocean liner's owner is Red Severn (Willard Robertson), whose daughter Pat (Maureen O'Sullivan) is the object of Alec's longings. Young tries to get his mother to leave his father and join him on the ocean liner, but she refuses out of love for her husband and her tugboat. Terry crashes the tugboat while drunk one night, and it is sold at an auction, then repaired and converted into a garbage boat. Sequels were made in later years, with Marjorie Rambeau and later Jane Darwell in the title role, and it was made into a TV series in the 1950s. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Genres
- Drama, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 4, 1933 Wide
- Studio
- Warner Home Video
Critic Reviews
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Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies
An enjoyable diversion that provides Dressler with ample opportunities to flex her acting chops.
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Cast
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Marie Dressler
as Annie Brennan
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Wallace Beery
as Terry Brennan
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Robert Young
as Alec Brennan
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Maureen O'Sullivan
as Pat Severn
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Willard Robertson
as Red Severn
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Tammany Young
as Shif'less
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Frankie Darro
as Alec as a child
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Jack Pennick
as Pete
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Paul Hurst
as Sam
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Vince Barnett
as Cabby
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Robert H. Barrat
as First Mate
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Willie Fung
as Chow the Cook
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Sam Harris
as Onlooker
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Robert E. Homans
as Ola Salt
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Robert McWade
as Mayor of Secoma
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Hal Price
as Mate
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Christian Rub
as Sailor
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Guy Usher
as Auctioneer
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Oscar Apfel
as Reynolds
