The Adventures of Tugboat Annie is a 1957 Canadian-filmed television series starring Minerva Urecal as Annie Brennan, the role originated by Marie Dressler in the 1933 screen classic Tugboat Annie.

Cinemas in which Marie Dressier plays the lead have one quality in common—the heroine is a raffish, vigorous old woman whose generous heart thumps under sleazy clothes that do not fit her. Tugboat ...

THE HEROINE OF the first Seattle-made feature film, “Tugboat Annie” (1933), might be fictional, but she’s cloned from real-life women, including the boisterous star who played her in the movie. That’s ...