Min and Bill
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Min and Bill (1930) is a film based on Lorna Moon's novel Dark Star, adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson.
It tells the story of a dockside innkeeper's (Min) tribulations as she tries to protect her adopted daughter's (Nancy) innocence, while loving and fighting with a boozy fisherman (Bill) that resides at the inn.
Min and Bill stars Marie Dressler (Min), Wallace Beery (Bill), Dorothy Jordan (Nancy) and Marjorie Rambeau (Bella, Nancy's ill-reputed mother), and was directed by George W. Hill. Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931.