Min and Bill is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-drama film, directed by George W. Hill and starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery.

Adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson from Lorna Moon's 1929 novel Dark Star, the film tells the story of dockside innkeeper Min's tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter, Nancy, while loving and fighting with boozy fisherman Bill, who resides at the inn.

In 1931, the studio released a Spanish-language version of Min and Bill, La fruta amarga,[2] directed by Arthur Gregor and starring Virginia Fábregas and Juan de Landa.

[citation needed] In 1933, the studio teamed Dressler and Beery as a married couple in Tugboat Annie, which was also a huge success.

She has been raising Nancy Smith (Dorothy Jordan) as her own since her prostitute mother, Bella (Marjorie Rambeau), left her at the inn as an infant.

After repeatedly dealing with the truant officer, Min uses the money she had hidden in her room to send Nancy to a fancy boarding school.

The schooling works, and Nancy returns to Min with good manners, an education, and the news that she is now engaged to a very wealthy man named Dick Cameron.

She taunts Min with the information and pledges to torment Nancy and her new husband until they give her money and take her into their new home.

Jack Kerouac, in On the Road, has his protagonist-narrator Sal Paradise compare Dean Moriarty and his second wife Camille to Min and Bill.