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Line 59: Dressler appeared in more than 40 films, and achieved her greatest successes in talking pictures made during the last years of her life. Always seeing herself as physically unattractive, she wrote an autobiography titled, ''The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling.'' ==Relationship with Claire Du Brey== In the late 1990s, two biographies of Dressler were published, ''Marie Dressler: The Unlikeliest Star'' (1997), by Ontario resident and writer Betty Lee, and ''Marie Dressler: A Biography'' (1999) by [[Matthew Kennedy (author) \| Matthew Kennedy]]. However, only Lee had access to DuBrey's diary. Both biographies claim Dressler bore a son around 1896, and that actress [[Claire Du Brey]] may have been Dressler's biological daughter, hence their close relationship. ==Death==