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Marilyn Maxwell (August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972)

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Marilyn Maxwell

August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972

☆ American actress and singer appeared in several Dr. Kildare films with Van Johnson – Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Three Men in White (1944); and Between Two Women (1945). Some of her other film roles included Lost in a Harem (1944) with Abbott and Costello; Champion (1949) with Kirk Douglas; The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) with Bob Hope; New York Confidential (1955) with Broderick Crawford; and Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958) with Jerry Lewis.

She received critical praise for her performance in the musical Summer Holiday (1948). The Christmas song "Silver Bells" made its debut in The Lemon Drop Kid, sung by Maxwell and Hope.

Along with Bob Hope she also entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on USO tours.

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Ava Gardner and Marilyn Maxwell .c.1951.

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McCalls magazine September 1946 advertisement w Marilyn Maxwell for Max Factor makeup.

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This beautiful velvet gown, likely designed by Robert Kalloch for Hedy Lamar’s Lucienne Talbot in the 1942 film Crossroads went on to be used in at least two promotional photo shoots for MGM sometime later in the 40s – one with Ruth Brady wearing the piece, and another with Marilyn Maxwell.

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Marilyn Maxwell

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Marilyn Maxwell, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope and Lauren Bacall, 1951

"I have spent a good deal of time trying to figure friendship out, without much luck. Why one friendship survives whether people see each other or not, why another fades for no apparent reason. Why sometimes old friends are easy to talk to about everything and then impossible to talk to about anything. Years ago, John Huston said that what matters most in any relationship-certainly in friendship-is interest. Those special friends whom I am closest to do just that. They interest me: how they think, what they feel, how they deal with life - its gifts and its denials. They add to and complete the circle of my life and enrich me. They are what I hang on to."

-Lauren Bacall, Now