Marian Nixon
2 credits on HibingeTV
American film actress, born in 1904. A leading lady of late-silent and early- sound films, she appeared in The Pay-Off (1930) as Nancy, and in films opposite W.C. Fields and Harold Lloyd. Her career declined in the late 1930s. She died in 1983.
Acted In
Drama, Musical
A 1929 American pre-Code musical drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Al Jolson and Davey Lee. Joe Lane (Jolson), a radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that studio manager Arthur Phillips has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine (Marian Nixon). Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison and insists that Katherine divorce him for her and their son's sake. When Joe is released, he visits his son, Little Pal (Lee), at school — but the boy follows him downtown and is struck by a truck, causing paralysis of his legs and loss of his voice. This was a follow-up to The Singing Fool (1928), reuniting Jolson with child star Davey Lee, and was the first film in which Jolson did not appear in blackface.
Drama · Musical
Say It with Songs
1929 - as Katherine Lane
Crime, Drama
A pre-Code crime drama directed by and starring Lowell Sherman, based on the 1927 play Crime by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer. Sherman plays Gene Fenmore, a gang boss who takes pity on a young couple robbed by one of his thugs (Hugh Trevor) and brings them under his protection. When the resentful thug is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their investigation on the innocent couple. Marian Nixon co-stars as Nancy. The film entered the public domain in 1958 when its copyright was not renewed.
Crime · Drama
The Pay-Off
1930 - as Nancy