Min and Bill

Min and Bill is a 1930 American PreCode comedydrama film starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery and based on Lorna Moons novel Dark Star, adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson. The movie tells the story of dockside innkeeper Mins tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter Nancy, all while loving and fighting with boozy fisherman Bill, who resides at the inn.

Min Divot Marie Dressler runs a dockside inn. She has been raising Nancy Smith Dorothy Jordan as her own since her prostitute mother, Bella Majorie Rambeau left her at the inn as an infant. Min frequently argues with fisherman Bill Wallace Beery. Despite Bills near constant drinking, he and Min care for each other. She and Bill are the only ones who know the real identity of Nancys real, still living, mother.Min does her best to raise Nancy and keep her from learning about the real activities of the people who live and work on the docks. Despite not having much extra money or a home outside her inn, Min does her best to raise Nancy into a young lady. She does everything she can to make sure Nancy is never around when Bella arrives for a visit. ........

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