Editing Min and Bill (section)

{{short description|1930 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Min and Bill
| image          = Min and bill 1930 poster.jpg
| caption        = 1930 re-release poster
| director       = [[George Hill (director)|George W. Hill]]
| producer       = George W. Hill<br>[[Harry Rapf]]
| writer         = [[Frances Marion]]<br>[[Marion Jackson]]
| based_on       = {{based on|''Dark Star''<br>1929 novel|[[Lorna Moon]]}}
| starring       = [[Marie Dressler]]<br>[[Wallace Beery]]
| cinematography = [[Harold Wenstrom]]
| editing        = [[Basil Wrangell]]
| distributor    = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
| released       = {{Film date|1930|11|29}}
| runtime        = 66 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget        =
| gross          = $2 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11816878|title=WHICH CINEMA FILMS HAVE EARNED THE MOST MONEY SINCE 1914?|newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]]|location=Melbourne|date=March 4, 1944|accessdate=August 6, 2012 |page=3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>}}

[[File:MainTitleMinBill1930Trailer.JPG|thumb|262px|{{center|From the original trailer}}]]

'''''Min and Bill''''' is a 1930 American [[pre-Code]] comedy-drama film, directed by [[George Hill (director)|George W. Hill]] and starring [[Marie Dressler]] and [[Wallace Beery]]. Adapted by [[Frances Marion]] and [[Marion Jackson]] from [[Lorna Moon]]'s 1929 novel ''Dark Star'', the film tells the story of dockside innkeeper Min's tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter, Nancy, while loving and fighting with boozy fisherman Bill, who resides at the inn. The picture was a runaway hit. In 1931, the studio released a Spanish-language version of ''Min and Bill'', ''La fruta amarga'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/1259-LA-FRUTAAMARGA?sid=529e7b87-db7d-479d-8fe6-c4b8e980241e&sr=12.765559&cp=1&pos=0 |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> directed by [[Arthur Gregor]] and starring [[Virginia Fábregas]] and [[Juan de Landa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/10792 |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>

''Min and Bill'' stars Dressler (Min), Beery (Bill), [[Dorothy Jordan (film actress)|Dorothy Jordan]] (Nancy), and [[Marjorie Rambeau]] (Bella, Nancy's disreputable mother). Dressler won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in 1931 for her performance in this film.<ref name="Oscars1931">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1932 |title=The 4th Academy Awards (1931) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 21, 2019 |publisher=Oscars.org ([[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]) |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20141010191946/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1932 |archive-date=October 10, 2014 }}</ref> Beery received the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] in 1931 for playing the title role in ''[[The Champ (1931 film)|The Champ]]'', which “fully vaulted him from character player to genuine movie star.”<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wallace Beery |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/12710%7C152971/Wallace-Beery |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=Turner Classic Movies |language=en}}</ref>

Beery became [[MGM]]'s highest-paid actor in the early 1930s, before [[Clark Gable]] took over that crown; Beery had a clause in his 1932 contract that he be paid a dollar per year more than any other actor on the lot.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

In 1933, the studio teamed Dressler and Beery as a married couple in ''[[Tugboat Annie]]'', which was also a huge success. In 1933, Dressler topped [[Martin Quigley (publisher)|Quigley Publications]]' annual [[Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll]] of movie exhibitors in 1931 and 1932.<ref>{{Citation |title=Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll |date=2022-02-12 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Top_Ten_Money_Making_Stars_Poll&oldid=1071433513 |work=Wikipedia |language=en |access-date=2022-03-28}}</ref>  She died of cancer in July 1934.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marie Dressler |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/53145%7C106192/Marie-Dressler |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=Turner Classic Movies |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:DresslerBeeryMinBill1930Trailer.jpg|thumb|left|From the original 1930 M-G-M trailer]]
[[File:DresslerBeeryJordanMinBill1930Trailer.jpg|thumb|left|Min, Bill and Nancy, the cobbled-together family that snared Marie Dressler an Oscar]]