Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery 5

Initially as lovable and quarrelsome 'Min and Bill' (1930): Min (Dressler, with Garbo in 'Anna Christie, 1930.'), who owns an inn and fisherman Bill (Beery, later in 'Treasure Island,' 1934) a resident there. Academy Award for Dressler.

No comic team more popular in movies at the time, which led to their teaming up once more in a sort of 'Min and Bill' remake in 'Tugboat Annie' (1933), again as a comically quarrelsome couple (as Annie and Terry Brennan).

MGM found Dressler and Beery another popular vehicle in the star-studded classic 'Dinner at Eight, 1934' she as society matron Carlotta Vance and Beery as Jean Harlow's millionaire husband.

In a lesser Tugboat Annie sequel from 1940, the respective roles went to Marjorie Rambeau (of 'Ma and Pa Kettle' fame) and Alan Hale (frequent Errol Flynn sidekick: Little John in 'The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938;' Rusty in 'Dodge City, 1939;' the Earl of Tyrone in 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, 1939;' Olaf Swenson ìn 'Virginia City, 1940;' Carl in 'The Sea Hawk; 1940' etc.) and father of Alan Hale, Jr., 'Skipper' in 'Gilligan's Island).

A third Tugboat Annie sequel came out in 1945, with Jane Darwell ('The Grapes of Wrath') and Edgar Kennedy. The chemistry wasn't there.