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(October 20, 1904 in Superior,
Wisconsin – February 13, 1983)
 Started
out as a vaudeville chorus dancer in her early teens, Nixon entered
films in 1922. In 1924, she was chosen by the Western Association of
Motion Picture Advertisers as a WAMPAS Baby Star, along with such
other hopefuls such as future movie leading actresses, names like
Clara Bow and Dorothy Mackaill.
After serving an apprenticeship as a Western ingénue, she was then
given leading-lady assignments opposite such popular male leading
stars, such names as Raymond Griffith, Reginald Denny, John
Barrymore, Richard Barthelmess, and Al Jolson. She also was one of
the few silent film stars who made a successful transition to
talkies, starring with electrifying new leading man James Cagney in
Winner Take All (1932), but her peaches-and-cream screen image was
getting old. Her sound film debut came as Mary Lane in Rainbow Man
(1929), which co-starred Eddie Dowling.
For her work in movies, she received a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame. |
