Watch Tugboat Annie (1933) Free Online

Release Date: 1933

Cast: Marie Dressler, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Wallace Beery

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Black-and-white

For the 1957 syndicated television series, see The Adventures of Tugboat Annie. 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. There... MORE

For the 1957 syndicated television series, see The Adventures of Tugboat Annie. 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. There is also a theory that her character is loosely based on Kate A. Sutton, secretary and dispatcher for the Providence Steamboat Company during the 1920s. 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. Capt. Clarance Howden Piloted the boat which was Owned by Foss Tug And Barge of Seattle, His son Richard Howden is seen rolling rope during the credits. Capt. Howden retired from Foss after 53 years of service, and was Fosses 2 capt. as a teen he rented LESS