
Maris Wrixon
Actor · 1916 – 1999 · Pasco, Washington, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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Movie7.6DramaRomanceA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
The Graduate
1967 · 3.8K votes
Movie6.9DramaRomanceSocialite 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.
Dark Victory
1939 · 165 votes
Movie5.8WesternAs 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.
Santa Fe Trail
1940 · 66 votes
Movie6.3DramaHistoryThis period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939 · 100 votes
Movie6.1DramaThe story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Knute Rockne All American
1940 · 27 votes
Movie7.1DramaA pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
A Child is Born
1939 · 4 votes
Movie7.0MysteryThrillerA devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.
Phantom Lady
1944 · 138 votes
Movie9.0WesternMusicA singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
The Sons of the Pioneers
1942 · 2 votes
Movie6.4RomanceDramaDying 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.
'Til We Meet Again
1940 · 10 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDramaA 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.
Each Dawn I Die
1939 · 64 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaEmbittered 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.
Dust Be My Destiny
1939 · 20 votes
Movie6.9DramaAn actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Lady with Red Hair
1940 · 7 votes
Movie5.7MysteryComedyA reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
A Shot in the Dark
1941 · 7 votes
Movie6.0DramaAt 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 reunite?
This Love of Ours
1945 · 4 votes
Movie5.8WarDramaDuring 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.
British Intelligence
1939 · 25 votes
Movie4.4ActionAdventureSecret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Code of the Secret Service
1939 · 7 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMysteryA 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.
Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · 13 votes
Movie6.0CrimeMysteryPhilo 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.
Calling Philo Vance
1940 · 13 votes
Movie5.7CrimeDramaSandy 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.
The Case of the Black Parrot
1941 · 5 votes
Movie5.0RomanceCrimeA detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
Bullets for O'Hara
1941 · 5 votes
Movie6.4DramaA young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 · 5 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaReporter 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.
The Adventures of Jane Arden
1939 · 4 votes
Movie8.0DramaAn 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.
No Place to Go
1939 · 2 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceA sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Million Dollar Baby
1941 · 6 votes
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TV6.7Action & AdventureDramaSea 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.
Sea Hunt
1958 · 20 votes
TV5.8DramaAn 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.
The Millionaire
1955 · 4 votes