Min and Bill

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Cast

Marie Dressler

as Min Divot

Wallace Beery

as Bill

Dorothy Jordan

as Nancy Smith

Marjorie Rambeau

as Bella Pringle

Don Dillaway

as Dick Cameron

DeWitt Jennings

as Groot

Russell Hopton

as Alec

Frank McGlynn Sr.

as Mr. Southard

Gretta Gould

as Mrs. Southard

Hank Bell

as Sailor in Barbershop (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

The curmudgeonly “Min” (Marie Dressler) owns a rundown hotel slap bang in the middle of the docks, where she has raised the foundling “Nancy” (Dorothy Jordan) with the help of the mischievous “Bill” (Wallace Beery). The thing is, now that “Nancy” is nearing her adulthood she is attracting the attent...

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