Maris Wrixon

Maris Wrixon

Born: December 28, 1916
Died: October 6, 1999
in Pasco, Washington, USA
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Maris Wrixon (December 28, 1916 – October 6, 1999) was an American film and television actress. She appeared in over 50 films between 1939 and 1951.

Between 1940 and 1942, Wrixon appeared in 29 films at Warner Bros., alternating between uncredited parts (in films including High Sierra and Dark Victory) and supporting roles.

Wrixon worked primarily in B-movies and, in addition to her Warners films, in films produced by Poverty Row studios such as Monogram Pictures. Monogram released the film in which The New York Times says "horror fans remember her best," The Ape, which starred Boris Karloff.

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The Graduate
Title: The Graduate
Character: Welcoming Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
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Title: Sea Hunt
Released: January 4, 1958
Type: TV
Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Mrs. Robinson - Ellen's Mother
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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As You Were
Title: As You Were
Character: WAC
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: Movie
In a train station, Army recruiting sergeant Ames attempts to enlist a group of young men with blandishments of travel and glamour in the Army.
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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Highway 13
Title: Highway 13
Character: Mary Hadley
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
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The Saxon Charm
Title: The Saxon Charm
Character: Mrs. McCarthy
Released: September 28, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
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Hollywood Wonderland
Title: Hollywood Wonderland
Character: Western Heroine (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
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The Glass Alibi
Title: The Glass Alibi
Character: Linda Vale
Released: April 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.
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The Face of Marble
Title: The Face of Marble
Character: Linda Sinclair
Released: January 19, 1946
Type: Movie
The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine, is frightened by his work, and in order to protect her, housekeeper Maria unleashes a torrent of voodoo that wrecks havoc.
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Black Market Babies
Title: Black Market Babies
Character: Helen Roberts
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
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This Love of Ours
Title: This Love of Ours
Character: Evelyn
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
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White Pongo
Title: White Pongo
Character: Pamela Bragdon
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a scientist that hopes to find and prove that a fabled white gorilla is a missing link.
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The Master Key
Title: The Master Key
Character: Dorothy Newton
Released: April 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.
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Trail to Gunsight
Title: Trail to Gunsight
Character: Mary Wagner
Released: August 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, an innocent saddletramp is blamed for killing a man. Fortunately he finds the real culprit before it is too late.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Freda Hauser
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.
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Phantom Lady
Title: Phantom Lady
Character: Blonde (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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Women in Bondage
Title: Women in Bondage
Character: Grete Ziegler
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.
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Silent Witness
Title: Silent Witness
Character: Betty Higgins, Special Investigator
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Mary Jo Weaver
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are ready to impeach the mayor, June Weaver, and the police chief, Leon Weaver. To end the crime and preserve her career, June feigns corruption and hires a real gangster to get rid of the local mobs. Unfortunately, a bona fide crooked councilman intervenes and makes real mob connections causing an earnest journalist to launch a front page attack.
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Sons of the Pioneers
Title: Sons of the Pioneers
Character: Louise Harper
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
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Spy Ship
Title: Spy Ship
Character: Sue Mitchell
Released: June 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
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Bullets for O'Hara
Title: Bullets for O'Hara
Character: Elaine Standish
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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Sunset in Wyoming
Title: Sunset in Wyoming
Character: Wilmetta 'Billie' Wentworth
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won't let that happen.
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Million Dollar Baby
Title: Million Dollar Baby
Character: Diana Bennett
Released: May 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Helen Armstrong
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
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Footsteps in the Dark
Title: Footsteps in the Dark
Character: June Brewster
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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The Case of the Black Parrot
Title: The Case of the Black Parrot
Character: Sandy Vantine
Released: January 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Miss Annie Ellis (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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The Ape
Title: The Ape
Character: Frances Clifford
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
Title: The Man Who Talked Too Much
Character: Roscoe's Secretary
Released: July 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
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Cinderella's Feller
Title: Cinderella's Feller
Character: Fairy Godmother
Released: June 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of Cinderella with a children's cast.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: 2nd Nurse - City Hospital (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Alice in Movieland
Title: Alice in Movieland
Character: Operator (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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Private Detective
Title: Private Detective
Character: First Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Information Girl (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Title: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Character: Lady of the Court (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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British Intelligence
Title: British Intelligence
Character: Dorothy Bennett
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Jeepers Creepers
Title: Jeepers Creepers
Character: Connie Durant
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Sentenced to toil on a family's land, a greedy man discovers coal and secretly buys the property.
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No Place to Go
Title: No Place to Go
Character: Mrs. Washburn
Released: September 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Ride, Cowboy, Ride
Title: Ride, Cowboy, Ride
Character: Laura Ramsey
Released: September 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Dinny and his cowhand friends rescue Laura from a runaway stagecoach after it is robbed by outlaw Pancho Dominguez and his gang. Dinny is attracted to Laura, who isn't interested in him at all. The climax arises when Pancho's gang raids the town and robs the bank.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Girl in Car (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Girl at Beach (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Code of the Secret Service
Title: Code of the Secret Service
Character: Saxby's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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Dark Victory
Title: Dark Victory
Character: Judith's Friend (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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The Adventures of Jane Arden
Title: The Adventures of Jane Arden
Character: Martha Blanton
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.