D.C. Washington. World War I. View of central steps of Capitol, where movie stars are selling Liberty Bonds

Includes at center: Marie Dressler (hand up near hair), Charlie Chaplin, and actress Mary Pickford in large hat.
No. 61.
Another print filed under: U.S. GEOG FILE - Washington, D.C. Social Life & Customs.
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.
Caption card tracings: Motion Pictures; World War, I914-1918 Bonds; Geogr.

Marie Dressler - Canadian-American actress and comedian of silent and early sound film eras of the 1910s and 1920s, born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada in 1868, began her career in vaudeville and on Broadway before moving to Hollywood in 1913. Dressler was a comic 'woman of a certain age'. Movies: "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914), "Dinner at Eight" (1933), "Emma" (1932).