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Vintage Film Festival

movie-reels79The Foundation produces the Vintage Film Festival every year on a weekend in October. Full details here.

 

Marie Dressler House

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The history of the Marie Dressler House is here.  It is now the home of the Interactive Canadian Women in Film Museum.

Dressler House is located at:
212 King street West (Hwy 2),
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.


The Marie Dressler Museum has been expanded and is now called "Canadian Women in Film Museum".


Hours

Opening hours for Summer 2022
Tuesday thru Saturday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Visit the new museum's website here for details of how to book your visit at other times

 

Latest Bursaries

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    Juliette Sinnott 2019

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    Ben Hughes 2018

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    Mackenzie Earle 2017

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    Sydney Stewart 2018

  • Alyssa Brush

    Alyssa Brush - 2022

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    Stephanie Kooman 2017

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    Carter Holmes 2017

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    Kieva Earle 2018

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    Ava Bogyay 2019

  • Georgia Callaghan

    Georgia Callaghan - 2022

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    Kyler Tonkin 2017

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    Graham Beer 2018

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    Olivia Rapsos 2019

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    Andrew Atanasoff 2019

  • Isabell Haig

    Isabell Haig - 2022

  • Malcolm Jack

    Malcolm Jack - 2022

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    Morgan Murray 2017

November 9th is Marie Dressler's 149th birthday so the Dressler Foundation put on a big celebration for her.  The celebration featured a professionally made documentary of how the community came together to build the museum, free Marie Dressler Butter Tarts (and coffee) and then followed this with a screening of one of Marie Dressler's earliest movies, Tillie Wakes Up, made in 1917.  (The Butter tarts were designed by Stephanie Harrington at the Dutch Oven).

Foundation chair Rick Miller also spoke of her civic involvement when in 1919 she fought for better wages for chorus girls and other women’s rights issues.  She was earning $2500 a week on Broadway while they made $8 a week.  She was banned from the stage for her efforts but came back as a star in the movie Anna Christie in 1930.

Marie DresslerShe knew she was not beautiful in the Hollywood sense but said that “every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features or how indifferent her figure ….  It is her birthright”.

As Rick said: “Marie is part of our cultural heritage”.

The celebration was held in the Civic Forum in Victoria Hall and it was packed with over 50 people - some had to stand.  In attendance were MPP Lou Rinaldi, Mayor Gil Brocanier, Deputy Mayor John Henderson, Councillors Forrest Rowden and Suzanne Séguin and Director of Culture and Recreation, Dean Hustwick.

Rick also said that 2018 will be Marie’s 150th so there would be more celebrations next year:

  • Free popcorn for the August 4th Movie on the Beach
  • The Art Gallery of Northumberland will host a special Marie Dressler Exhibition in September and October (items different to the Museum)
  • An exciting Society Event at the end of September – a Hollywood themed Dinner at Eight based on the successful 1933 movie starring Marie Dressler.
  • On Marie’s birthday, November 9, a public celebration outside Victoria Hall.

Details of these events will be posted on this site.

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