''The Scrub Lady'', also known as ''Tillie the Scrub Lady'', is a 1917 American silent comedy short film produced by and starring

Marie Dressler Leila Marie Koerber (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934), known professionally as Marie Dressler, was a Canadian-born stage- and screen-actress and comedian, popular in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood in early silent film, silent an ...

and distributed by

Goldwyn Pictures Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company that operated from 1916 to 1924 when it was merged with two other production companies to form the major studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was founded on November 19, ...

. The picture is preserved in the

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...

.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' by The American Film Institute, c.1978 Vincent P. Bryan was a composer, lyricist and writer. He had helmed nearly all of

Charles Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered ...

's Mutual films. The newly created

brought Bryan in to write ''The Scrub Lady''. Dressler portrayed Tillie in three other films, including the first full-length comedy, '' Tillie's Punctured Romance'' (1914), with

and

Mabel Normand Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893 – February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, comedienne, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their K ...

, as well as '' Tillie's Tomato Surprise'' (1915) and '' Tillie Wakes Up'' (1917). Tillie has a different last name in ''Tillie Wakes Up'', which could be explained by the fact that her character is married.

Cast

as Tillie * Max Davidson (in still photo with Dressler)

References

External links

*
Still of Marie Dressler from the film, Max Davidson on the left
(University of Washington, Sayre collection) 1917 films Goldwyn Pictures films 1917 comedy films Silent American comedy short films 1917 short films American black-and-white films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub