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| Min and Bill | |
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| Directed by | George W. Hill |
| Produced by | George W. Hill |
| Written by | Lorna Moon (novel) Frances Marion Marion Jackson |
| Starring | Marie Dressler Wallace Beery |
| Cinematography | Harold Wenstrom |
| Editing by | Basil Wrangell |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | 1930 |
| Running time | 66 minutes |
| Country |  United States
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| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Min and Bill (1930) is a film based on Lorna Moon\'s novel Dark Star, adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson.
It tells the story of a dockside innkeeper\'s (Min) tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter (Nancy), all while loving and fighting with a boozy fisherman (Bill) who resides at the inn.
Min and Bill stars Marie Dressler (Min), Wallace Beery (Bill), Dorothy Jordan (Nancy), and Marjorie Rambeau (Bella, Nancy\'s ill-reputed mother), and was directed by George W. Hill. Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931.
This film was such a runaway smash hit that it and its near-sequel Tugboat Annie, which reteamed Dressler and Beery in similar roles, boosted both to superstar status. Dressler topped Quigley Publications\' annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll of movie exhibitors in 1933, and the two pairings with Dressler primarily were responsible for Beery becoming MGM\'s highest paid actor in the early 1930s, before Clark Gable took over that crown.
Jack Kerouac, in On the Road, has his protagonist-narrator Sal Paradise compare Dean Moriarity and his second wife Camille to Min and Bill. Kerouac does not explain the reference, but it would be understood by contemporary readers that he was signaling that the couple had a contentious but affectionate relationship, with Dean the weak, ne\'er-do-well and Camille the heart and soul of the relationship, holding things together.
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