Marie Dressler's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

In the record

Leila Marie Koerber (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934), known professionally as Marie Dressler, was a Canadian-born stage and screen actress, script editor, writer, and comedian. The birth-card coordinate for November 9 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1932 Best Actress — Min and Bill win.

Academy Award record

• 1932 Best Actress — Min and Bill

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Marie Dressler's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Marie Dressler. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

Live Jack of Clubs meaning page

Marie Dressler in the public record

She was popular in Hollywood in early silent and Depression-era film. After leaving home at the age of 14, Dressler built a career on stage in traveling theatre troupes, and learned to appreciate her talent in making people laugh. In 1892, she started a career on Broadway that lasted into the 1920s, performing comedic roles that allowed her to improvise to get laughs. She soon transitioned into screen acting and made several shorts, but mostly worked in New York City on stage. During World War I, along with other celebrities, she helped sell Liberty bonds. In 1914, she played the title role in the first full-length screen comedy, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), opposite Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. In 1919, she helped organize the first union for stage-chorus players. Her career declined in the 1920s, and Dressler was reduced to living on her savings while sharing an apartment with a friend.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Marie Dressler (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Marie Dressler, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

Leila Marie Koerber (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934), known professionally as Marie Dressler, was a Canadian-born stage and screen actress, script editor, writer, and comedian.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: editor, writer.

Also on the record

1. In 1927, she returned to films at the age of 58 and experienced a remarkable string of successes.
2. For her performance in the comedy film Min and Bill (1930), Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
3. She died of cancer in 1934, aged 65.

Other winners with this card

• Claudette Colbert — 1935 Best Actress — It Happened One Night
• Elizabeth Taylor — 1961 Best Actress — BUtterfield 8; 1967 Best Actress — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Ellen Burstyn — 1975 Best Actress — Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• James Cagney — 1943 Best Actor — Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Jean Dujardin — 2012 Best Actor — The Artist
• Jennifer Lawrence — 2013 Best Actress — Silver Linings Playbook
• Joanne Woodward — 1958 Best Actress — The Three Faces of Eve
• Mikey Madison — 2025 Best Actress — Anora
• Simone Signoret — 1960 Best Actress — Room at the Top

FAQ

What is Marie Dressler's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. November 9 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Marie Dressler's dates come from?

Birth date 1868-11-09 is the day-precision date on Marie Dressler's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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