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Min and Bill

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Min and Bill is a 1931 film which tells the story of a dockside bar owner who tries to keep the girl she has raised from infancy, while loving and fighting with the boozy captain of a fishing boat. It stars Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan and Marjorie Rambeau.

The movie was adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson from the novel Dark Star by Lorna Moon. It was directed by George W. Hill.

Marie Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress.