Tugboat Annie

In the list of Hollywood box office hit movies for mothers' day, the movie titled "Tugboat Annie", starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery is the most popular. It has been superbly directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The credit for writing the story goes to Norman Reilly Raine. In the movie, the main character of the tugboat captain called Annie Brennan is played by a fabulous actress named Marie Dressler. Actor Wallace Beery plays the role of her husband called Terry Brennan, who is portrayed as a lazy drunkard man. The story revolves around a bravo woman, who makes a constant effort to keep the family together.

Robert Young plays the character of their son Alec, who is very ambitious about his career and finally ends up becoming the captain of an ocean liner. It is shown how Annie burnt the midnight oil, so as to make the future of her child. Robert Young insists that his mother should get separated from her husband and join him on the ocean liner. But her mother doesn't leave her husband and refuses to come along. Terry in a drunken situation crashes the tugboat and destroys the whole business. Well, the storyline is not extraordinary but what is appreciable in the movie is the performance of actress Marie Dressler.