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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Nix...
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Complete Filmography

Captain Calamity
1936
as Madge
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.

The Drag-Net
1936
as Katherine 'Kit' van Buren
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
Tango
1936
as Treasure McGuire
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.

The Reckless Way
1936
as Helen Rogers
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...
Sweepstake Annie
1935
as Annie Foster
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...

By Your Leave
1934
as Andree
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

Embarrassing Moments
1934
as Jane
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...

We're Rich Again
1934
as Arabella Sykes (as Marion Nixon)
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

Strictly Dynamite
1934
as Sylvia
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

Chance at Heaven
1933
as Glory Franklyn
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.

Doctor Bull
1933
as May Tupping
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...

Pilgrimage
1933
as Mary Saunders
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Best of Enemies
1933
as Lena Schneider
Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers...

Face in the Sky
1933
as Madge
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...

Too Busy to Work
1932
as Rose
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...

Madison Square Garden
1932
as Bee
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 ...

Winner Take All
1932
as Peggy Harmon
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 ...

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
as Rebecca
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...

Amateur Daddy
1932
as Sally Smith
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'...

After Tomorrow
1932
as Sidney Taylor
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...

Charlie Chan's Chance
1932
as Shirley Marlowe
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...

A Private Scandal
1931
as Mary Gate
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 ...

Women Go on Forever
1931
as Betty

Sweepstakes
1931
as Babe Ellis
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

The Lash
1930
as Dona Dolores Delfino
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

Ex-Flame
1930
as Lady Catherine
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...

The Pay-Off
1930
as Annabelle
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...

College Lovers
1930
as Madge Hutton
Romance on a college campus.

Scarlet Pages
1930
as Nora Mason
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 ...

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
as Self
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, atten...

Courage
1930
as Muriel Colbrook
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...

General Crack
1929
as Archduchess Maria Luisa
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...

The Show of Shows
1929
as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
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...

Young Nowheres
1929
as Annie Jackson
Albert Whalen, a hotel elevator operator, together with one of the pretty chambermaids, Annie Jackson, on the hotel staff are accused of breaking and ...

In the Headlines
1929
as Anna Lou Anderson
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...

Say It with Songs
1929
as Katherine Lane
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine....

Rainbow Man
1929
as Mary Lane
The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.

Geraldine
1929
as Geraldine
Ambitious social climber Mr. Wygate hires charming rogue Eddie Able to polish his shy daughter Geraldine into a dazzling debutante. Geraldine, smitten...

Silks and Saddles
1929
as Lucy Calhoun
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,...

Man, Woman and Wife
1929
as Bella Rogers / Helen Brandon
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 ...

Jazz Mad
1928
as Elsa Hausmann
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...

How to Handle Women
1928
as Beatrice Fairbanks
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...

Out of the Ruins
1928
as Yvonne Gilbert
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...
The Fourflusher
1928
as June Allen
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...

The Chinese Parrot
1927
as Sally Phillmore
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...

Out All Night
1927
as Molly O'Day
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.

Taxi! Taxi!
1927
as Rose Zimmerman
An architect, constantly in trouble with his employers, falls for the boss's niece. When he spontaneously buys a taxicab to take her home on a rainy n...

The Auctioneer
1927
as Ruth Levi
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 ...

Spangles
1926
as 'Spangles' Delancy
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...

Devil's Island
1926
as Rose Marie
A wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.

Rolling Home
1926
as Phyllis
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...

What Happened to Jones
1926
as Lucille Bigbee
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...

Hands Up!
1926
as Mae Woodstock
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...

Sporting Life
1925
as Nora Cavanaugh
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...

Durand of the Bad Lands
1925
as Molly Gore
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...

Where Was I?
1925
as Alicia Stone
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.

I'll Show You the Town
1925
as Hazel Deming
British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice.

Let 'er Buck
1925
as Jacqueline McCall
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...

Riders of the Purple Sage
1925
as Bess Erne
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.

The Saddle Hawk
1925
as Rena Newhall
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...

The Hurricane Kid
1925
as Joan Langdon
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...

The Last of the Duanes
1924
as Ruth
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...

The Circus Cowboy
1924
as Bird Taylor
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...
The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios
1924
The City of Stars is structured as a "coming attractions" promo within the fictional framework of an Eastern editor (vaudeville actor Broderick O'Farr...

The Vagabond Trail
1924
as Lou Macon
Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully and is thrown off a freight train

Cupid's Fireman
1923
as Agnes Evans
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...

Big Dan
1923
as Dora Allen
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...