Lully or Marie Dressler?

[oxymoron]

Jean-Baptiste Lully

or



Marie Dressler

[flamingyouth]

1. Oh, Marie Dressler all the way!

She was an awesome comedienne. :thumbsup:

[oxymoron]

2. Yes she was.

I would like to see more of her silent film work. I know her mostly for her talkies. Her comedic timing was brilliant.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

3. Dressler!

Faaaaaaaabulous in "Dinner at Eight."

[5thGenDemocrat]

4. Marie Dressler

Another one of Saginaw's own! Last week it was Stevie Wonder, this week it's Tugboat Annie -- if we can get a thread going on Theodore Roethke (or Question Mark and the Mysterians, I suppose), I'll have my trifecta.
John
Very proud of Saginaw (it is, after all, The Center of the Universe) and those from it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. But Lully would be eligible for the Darwin Award, if it had existed

in 17th century France.

He was director of music for the royal court and famous for his bad temper. He used to beat time for the musicians by pounding his cane on the floor. One day he got out-of-control angry while pounding his cane and stabbed himself in the foot with it. He died of the resulting infection.

I'm not making this up.