Tugboat Annie

Plot

Cast

• Marie Dressler as Annie Brennan
• Wallace Beery as Terry Brennan
• Robert Young as Alec Brennan
• Maureen O'Sullivan as Pat Severn
• Willard Robertson as Red Severn
• Tammany Young as Shif'less
• Frankie Darro as Alec, as a Child
• Jack Pennick as Pete
• Paul Hurst as Sam
• Oscar Apfel as Reynolds
• Jessie Arnold as Miss Blake - Severn's Secretary
• Vince Barnett as Cab Driver
• Robert Barrat as First Mate of 'Glacier Queen'
• Wallis Clark as Second Banker
• Willie Fung as Chow - the Cook
• Charles Giblyn as Banker John Wilcox
• Marilyn Harris as Pat Severn, as a Child
• Robert Homans as Old Salt on Schooner
• Robert McWade as Mayor of Secoma
• Roger Moore as Man on Dock
• Hal Price as Mate on Ferry
• Jack Randall as Party Guest
• Christian Rub as Sailor
• Guy Usher as Auctioneer

Reception

Critical response

Leonard Maltin called it a "rambling, episodic comedy drama; inimitable stars far outclass their wobbly material." Leslie Halliwell gave it two of four stars: "Hilarious and well-loved comedy vehicle for two great stars of the period."

Box Office

The film earned $1,917,000 in rentals in the United States and Canada and $655,000 overseas for a total of $2,572,000 and made a profit of $1.1 million.

Sequels

A sequel called Tugboat Annie Sails Again was released in 1940, starring Marjorie Rambeau, Alan Hale, Jane Wyman, and Ronald Reagan, and another called Captain Tugboat Annie in 1945 starring Jane Darwell and Edgar Kennedy. Many of the publicity shots for the former were taken aboard the Arthur Foss, which had starred as Annie's "Narcissus" in the original film.

A Canadian-filmed television series appeared in 1957: The Adventures of Tugboat Annie, starring Minerva Urecal, ran for 39 half-hour episodes.

References in other media

• In The Railway Series book The Twin Engines, Gordon the Big Engine references Tugboat Annie when he teases Donald and Douglas about their deep-toned whistles.
• In the original 1967 version of The Producers, after Roger De Bris mentions as to why he's wearing a dress, due to him going to the choreographer ball, he claims that he looks more like the character when he is supposed to be "The Grand Dutchess Anastasia".
• The character is mentioned in the AA "Big Book" in the personal story of Dr. Bob, one of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
• 1990s indie rock band Tugboat Annie was named for the character.

References

References

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