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Portrait
File No. 129589 · Adjudicated
Marie Dressler
Actor — Min and Bill, Tugboat Annie, Dinner at Eight
Born
1868
Birthplace
COBOURG, ONTARIO
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
COBOURG, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
Fun fact
She was the top box-office draw in the United States in both 1932 and 1933 — a sixty-something former vaudeville comedian outselling every young star in Hollywood.
The verdict
Born in Cobourg, Ontario, where her father taught music and she sang in the church choir before the family's fortunes sent them touring — she was the biggest box-office draw in America by 1932, at sixty-three, having outlasted an entire generation of ingenues. Born, raised, five points, and Canada Post finally put her on a stamp in 2008.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org