Maris Wrixon

Wrixon was born in Billings, Montana,{{cite news|work=Billings Gazette|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61294063/the-billings-gazette/|title=Actress Appears Here Friday|date=June 28, 1940|page=13|via=Newspapers.com}} and raised in Great Falls,{{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Harris M. III |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |date=2000 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786409198 |page=241 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnjGCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Maris+Wrixon%22&pg=PA241 |accessdate=12 September 2018 |language=en}} one of three children{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61292962/obituary-for-william-wrixon/|title=Obituary for William Wrixon|date=August 4, 1953|page=9|via=Newspapers.com|work=Great Falls Tribune}} born to Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Wrixon.{{cite news |title=Great Falls Girl Assigned to Roles In Two Pictures |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23660082/maris_wrixon/ |work=Great Falls Tribune |date=November 11, 1938 |location=Montana, Great Falls |page=6|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 11, 2018}} Her interest in acting was sparked by a role she had in a class play{{cite news |title=Montana Girl Makes 'Em Talk |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23659892/maris_wrixon/ |work=The Minneapolis Star |date=July 20, 1941 |location=Minnesota, Minneapolis |page=Sunday Magazine - 7|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 11, 2018}} when she was a student at Great Falls High School.{{cite news |title=Proves She's Right 'Type' in Film Role |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23660622/maris_wrixon/ |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=December 31, 1938 |location=Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh |page=10|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 11, 2018}}

She gained acting experience at the Pasadena Community Playhouse.{{cite news |title=Former Falls Girl Wins Film Prominence |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23660483/maris_wrixon/ |work=Great Falls Tribune |date=December 30, 1938 |location=Montana, Great Falls |page=5|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 11, 2018 }}

Wrixon first appeared in films in the late 1930s, making one film in 1938 and 10 in 1939. Between 1940 and 1942, she appeared in 29 films at Warner Brothers, 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",{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}} The Ape, which starred Boris Karloff.

Her final film was As You Were (1951).

Wrixon was married to Oscar-nominated film editor Rudi Fehr. She died in Santa Monica, California of heart failure.

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• Off the Record (1939) - Telephone Operator (uncredited)
• The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939) - Martha Blanton - Debutante
• No Place to Go (1939) - Mrs. Harriet Washburn (uncredited)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) - Lady of the Court (uncredited)
• Jeepers Creepers (1939) - Connie Durant
• British Intelligence (1940) - Dorothy Bennett (uncredited)
• 'Til We Meet Again (1940) - Girl (uncredited)
• Saturday's Children (1940) - City Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
• Flight Angels (1940) - Bonnie
• The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940) - Roscoe's Secretary
• The Ape (1940) - Miss Frances Clifford
• Knute Rockne All American (1940) - Telephone Operator (uncredited)
• Lady with Red Hair (1940) - Miss Annie Ellis (uncredited)
• Santa Fe Trail (1940) - Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
• The Case of the Black Parrot (1941) - Sandy Vantine
• High Sierra (1941) - Blonde at Auto Accident (uncredited)
• Footsteps in the Dark (1941) - June Brewster
• Meet John Doe (1941) - Autograph Hound (uncredited)
• A Shot in the Dark (1941) - Helen Armstrong
• Million Dollar Baby (1941) - Diana Bennet
• Sunset in Wyoming (1941) - Wilmetta 'Billie' Wentworth
• Bullets for O'Hara (1941) - Elaine Standish
• Navy Blues (1941) - Hawaii Pickup #2 (uncredited)
• Spy Ship (1942) - Sue Mitchell
• Sons of the Pioneers (1942) - Louise Harper
• The Old Homestead (1942) - Mary Jo Weaver
• Silent Witness (1943) - Betty Higgins, Special Investigator
• Women in Bondage (1943) - Grete Ziegler
• Phantom Lady (1944) - Blonde (uncredited)
• Waterfront (1944) - Freda Hauser
• Trail to Gunsight (1944) - Mary Wagner
• The Master Key (1945, Serial) - Dorothy Newton
• White Pongo (1945) - Pamela Bragdon
• This Love of Ours (1945) - Evelyn
• Black Market Babies (1945) - Helen Roberts
• The Face of Marble (1946) - Linda Sinclair
• The Glass Alibi (1946) - Linda Vale
• The Saxon Charm (1948) - Mrs. McCarthy (uncredited)
• Highway 13 (1948) - Mary Hadley
• As You Were (1951)
• Sea Hunt (1960, TV Series) - Edith Judd
• The Graduate (1967) - Guest at Welcoming Party (uncredited)
• Dayton's Devils (1968) - Cashier (final film role)

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• {{IMDb name|0942979|Maris Wrixon}}
• Brief biography and filmography at [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=77654 The New York Times]

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