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, based on a series of stories in the Saturday Evening Post, 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.
Waterfront couple (Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery) raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty (Robert Young) and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business. Dressler dotes on his son and his snooty girlfriend (Maureen O'Sullivan). Written by Ed Lorusso
