Marian Nixon
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Marian Nixon (October 20, 1904 – February 13, 1983) was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 70 films.
Born Marian Nissinen in Superior, Wisconsin to parents of Finnish descent, Nixon began her career as a teen dancing in choruses in vaudeville. She began appearing in bit part in films in 1922 and landed her first substantial role in the 1923 film Cupid's Fireman, opposite Buck Jones. The following year, she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star. Nixon continued to work steadily throughout the mid to late 1920s appearing in Riders of the Purple Sage (1925), Hands Up! (1926), and The Chinese Parrot (1927). In 1929, she made her talkie debut as the lead in Geraldine. Later that same year, Nixon appeared opposite Al Jolson in Say It with Songs followed by General Crack in 1930.
In 1932, she starred as Rebecca in the film adaption of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm with Ralph Bellamy. Following the release of Rebecca, Nixon co-starred in Winner Take All with James Cagney. The next year she had a supporting role in John Ford's Pilgrimage. In 1934, Nixon attempted to change her wholesome image with a role in the comedy We’re Rich Again. The film wasn't a success and after appearing in eight more films, Nixon retired from acting in 1936. She made her last film, Captain Calamity at the age of 32.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.704 |
| Birthday | 1904-10-20 |
| Place of Birth | Superior, Wisconsin, USA |
| Also Known As | Marion Nixon, Marian Nissinen, |
1930
Ex-Flame
0/0
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from h...
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Ex-Flame
1926
Hands Up!
5.25/8
Jack, a southern spy during the Civil War, must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, Native Americans, and a...
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Hands Up!
1924
The Vagabond Trail
0/0
Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully and is thrown off a freight train
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The Vagabond Trail
1928
The Fourflusher
0/0
Young and ambitious but so far unsuccessful shoe clerk Andy Whittaker meets June Allen and tries to impress her by pretending to be an important busin...
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The Fourflusher
1925
Let 'er Buck
0/0
A young cowboy falls in love with the daughter of a rich rancher, and they plan to marry. However, the cowboy winds up getting in a fight with the gir...
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Let 'er Buck
1923
Cupid's Fireman
4/2
McGee becomes a fireman over the protests of his mother, who doesn't want to see her son sacrifice his life the way his father did. When she dies, McG...
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Cupid's Fireman
1924
The Circus Cowboy
0/0
After a 2-year absence, Buck Saxon returns home to find his girl, Norma, married to the town's wealthiest citizen, Ezra Bagley, yet professing to love...
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The Circus Cowboy
1932
Winner Take All
5.3/6
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves...
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Winner Take All
1932
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
0/0
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1933
Doctor Bull
6.6/8
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regar...
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Doctor Bull
1926
What Happened to Jones
5.8/4
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies...
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What Happened to Jones
1932
After Tomorrow
5.75/4
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get marr...
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After Tomorrow
1933
Chance at Heaven
5.6/9
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
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Chance at Heaven
1933
Pilgrimage
6.8/15
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
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Pilgrimage
1925
The Hurricane Kid
0/0
The Hurricane Kid runs afoul of Colonel Langdon's ranch foreman, Lafe Baxter when Joan Langdon shows an obvious preference for The Kid, and The Kid re...
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The Hurricane Kid
1930
The Pay-Off
5/10
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes...
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The Pay-Off
1935
Sweepstake Annie
3.7/3
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and...
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Sweepstake Annie
1930
Scarlet Pages
6.5/2
Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does...
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Scarlet Pages
1934
Strictly Dynamite
5.3/3
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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Strictly Dynamite
1931
Sweepstakes
4.5/2
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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Sweepstakes
1929
Say It with Songs
5.3/3
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine....
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Say It with Songs
1936
Captain Calamity
3/3
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
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Captain Calamity
1926
Devil's Island
0/0
A wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.
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Devil's Island
1936
Tango
5/1
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
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Tango
1936
The Drag-Net
4.9/4
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
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The Drag-Net
1936
The Reckless Way
4/1
The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered ch...
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The Reckless Way
1931
A Private Scandal
4.3/3
There is a sensational jewel robbery at the home of one of the leaders of the Boston Back Bay aristocracy, and a Count d'Alencourt is arrested on the...
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A Private Scandal
1934
We're Rich Again
4/2
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
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We're Rich Again
1934
By Your Leave
3/2
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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By Your Leave
1928
How to Handle Women
0/0
When Leonard Higgins, a cartoonist, meets Prince Hendryx, ruler of the small nation of Vulgaria, he offers to help save the country by advertising the...
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How to Handle Women
1930
The Lash
5.3/3
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
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The Lash
1930
Courage
0/0
Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to ed...
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Courage
1925
Where Was I?
0/0
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
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Where Was I?
1929
General Crack
0/0
The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respecta...
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General Crack
1930
College Lovers
0/0
Romance on a college campus.
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College Lovers
1933
Face in the Sky
4.5/2
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her f...
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Face in the Sky
1932
Charlie Chan's Chance
6.5/2
Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie mu...
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Charlie Chan's Chance
1932
Madison Square Garden
6.2/2
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When...
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Madison Square Garden
1932
Too Busy to Work
4/1
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...
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Too Busy to Work
1925
Riders of the Purple Sage
5.7/9
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1925
Durand of the Bad Lands
0/0
A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff Clem...
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Durand of the Bad Lands
1925
The Saddle Hawk
0/0
Ben Johnson, a sheepherder who hates sheep, is instructed by his employer, Vasquez, to escort beautiful Rena Newhall to her father's ranch. On the jou...
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The Saddle Hawk
1930
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
3.4/4
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, atten...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1933
Best of Enemies
0/0
Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers...
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Best of Enemies
1927
The Chinese Parrot
0/0
The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective C...
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The Chinese Parrot
1929
Geraldine
0/0
Ambitious social climber Mr. Wygate hires charming rogue Eddie Able to polish his shy daughter Geraldine into a dazzling debutante. Geraldine, smitten...
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Geraldine
1929
In the Headlines
0/0
A tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown murd...
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In the Headlines
1932
Amateur Daddy
0/0
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred'...
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Amateur Daddy
1929
Young Nowheres
0/0
Young Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach.
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Young Nowheres
1929
Show of Shows
5.5/2
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the firs...
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Show of Shows
1928
Jazz Mad
0/0
A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But he meets with little success and begins to give up hope...
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Jazz Mad
1927
The Auctioneer
0/0
Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up...
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The Auctioneer
1925
Sporting Life
0/0
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can sav...
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Sporting Life
1928
Fashion News
5/1
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Fashion News
1926
Rolling Home
0/0
Nat Alden, a promoter, has had bad luck on his deal and is broke. He meets an old army pal who is now a chauffeur of the businessman who threw the luc...
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Rolling Home
1934
Embarrassing Moments
0/0
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in...
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Embarrassing Moments
1928
Out of the Ruins
0/0
He hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the shadow of a great love-never to realize it until he m...
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Out of the Ruins
1926
Spangles
0/0
At a three-ring circus, 'Spangles' Delancy, a beautiful bareback horse rider, falls in love with a wanted man, Dick Radley, who uses the circus as a h...
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Spangles
1924
The Last of the Duanes
0/0
Buck Duane is on the run after killing his father's murderer. He rescues a beautiful young woman from an outlaw, but the outlaw's wife has eyes for th...
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The Last of the Duanes
1924
The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios
7/1
The City of Stars is structured as a "coming attractions" promo within the fictional framework of an Eastern editor (vaudeville actor Broderick O'Farr...
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The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios
1927
Out All Night
0/0
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.
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Out All Night
1925
I'll Show You the Town
0/0
British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice.
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I'll Show You the Town
1929
Man, Woman and Wife
0/0
Helen Brandon, an unhappily married woman, marries former suitor Jack Mason when her husband, Ralph, is killed in action. The report of Ralph's death...
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Man, Woman and Wife
1929
Rainbow Man
0/0
The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.
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Rainbow Man
1929
Silks and Saddles
0/0
Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun's horse,...
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Silks and Saddles
1923
Big Dan
0/0
Dan O'Hara, known as "Big Dan," returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns his home into a boys' camp and begins to train box...
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