Marian Nixon
Biography: Marian Nixon |
A vaudeville chorus dancer in her early teens, actress Marian Nixon entered films in 1922. Two years later, she was chosen by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers as a WAMPAS Baby Star, along with such other hopefuls as Clara Bow and
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Cast: Phil Rosen Marie Prevost Herman Bing Chick Chandler Warren Hymer
Length: 66min
In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until his snooty family rejects her. At her job, her boss is cruel to her. Still the woman persists and even gets jobs waiting tables...
Cast: Louis Natheaux Vince Barnett Marian Nixon Crane Wilbur George Lewis
Tags: Swashbuckler Sea Adventure Adventure
Length: 65min
Set in the scenic South Seas, this high-seas adventure centers on a sailor who creates all kinds of trouble when he tells a whopper about having found a great Spanish treasure. Soon he finds himself and his girlfriend pursued by a colorful assortment...
Cast: Neil Hamilton Betty Grable Genevieve Tobin Margaret Hamilton Max Steiner
Tags: Comedy
Length: 81min
In this emotional but fast-paced comedy, a husband/businessman creates an ingenious cure for his mid-life crisis. He suggest to his wife that they take separate vacations and not discuss them with each other afterward. The wife isn't sure, but being a...
Cast: Tom Brown William Nigh Marian Nixon Lucien Littlefield M.H. Hoffman
Tags: Drama
Length: 81min
In this drama, a studio script girl works very hard to support her no-account family. One day she wins a lottery, gives her family some of the winnings and moves in with her best friend. She had a boy friend, but he became disgusted with her loyalty...
Cast: Jane Darwell Alan Mowbray Chester Morris George E. Stone Herman Bing
Tags: Comedy
Length: 67min
Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by Edward Laemmle, one of the many salaried relatives of avuncular Universal chieftain Carl Laemmle. Chester Morris plays Jerry Randolph,...
Cast: Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Elliott Nugent William Gargan Pandro S. Berman
Length: 71min
Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian who's running out of material. Jimmy Durante stars as Maxie Slaight, an airwaves mirthmaker who hires young Nick Montgomery...
Cast: Harold Huber William Gargan John Miljan Greta Meyer Paul Hurst
Tags: Detective Film Drama Mystery Crime
Length: 75min
William Gargan plays his first movie detective (but definitely not his last) in Columbia's The Lineup. The hero, a gumshoe named Bob (Gargan), is on the trail of a gang of fur smugglers. Deducing that a posh nightclub serves as the front for the...
Cast: Will Rogers John Ford Berton Churchill Andy Devine Robert Parrish
Tags: Medical Drama Drama Romance
Length: 90min
Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to the citizens, often substituting advice and witticisms for pills and sutures. There are those who resist Dr. Bull's everyday...
Cast: Neil Hamilton Raymond Hatton Aileen Pringle Marian Nixon George Irving
Length: 72min
Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor. Nixon plays a young innocent who through no fault of her own has become involved with gangsters. Seeking a way out, she latches on...
Cast: Edna May Oliver Reginald Denny William Seiter Billie Burke Larry "Buster" Crabbe
Length: 71min
Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play -And Let Who Will be Clever. Carolyn Page's (Joan Marsh) once-rich family has gone broke thanks to their profligate spending...
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