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Jean Dixon | |
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.jpg) Dixon inMy Man Godfrey (1936) | |
| Born | Jean Jacques (1893-07-14)July 14, 1893 Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 1981(1981-02-12) (aged 87) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1929–1960 |
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Jean Dixon (bornJean Jacques; July 14, 1893 – February 12, 1981)[1] was an American stage and film actress.
Dixon was born inWaterbury, Connecticut. She attended St. Margaret's School in Waterbury, and was also educated in France, where she studied dramatics underSarah Bernhardt.[1]
She made herBroadway stage debut in 1926, in a comedy melodrama calledWooden Kimono, and continued to perform there even after she retired from films.[2] Her style of "brittle comedy" was seen in plays likeJune Moon (1929) byGeorge S. Kaufman andRing Lardner andOnce in a Lifetime (1930) by Kaufman andMoss Hart. Her final Broadway performance was in the playThe Gang's All Here in 1959-60.[2]
Dixon made her screen debut in 1929 inThe Lady Lies and appeared in 11 other films, includingMy Man Godfrey, before her final studio film,Holiday (1938), which starredEdward Everett Horton,Cary Grant andKatharine Hepburn. She continued to act on stage throughout the 1940s and 1950s[3] and made some appearances in TV series and TV movies in the 1950s and in 1960.[citation needed]
In January 1936, Dixon eloped with Edward Stevenson Ely; they were married in Yuma, Arizona.[1]
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