Marilyn Maxwell

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Marilyn Maxwell seated with a cigarette, looking away as Kirk Douglas leans toward her in a tense scene from the 1949 film Champion.

Marilyn Maxwell

American actress

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Frank Tashlin
Films of the late 1950s
…with the now-solo Lewis, starred Marilyn Maxwell as an actress who has recently given birth to triplets and been widowed. Lewis played her befuddled babysitter. Lewis and Tashlin teamed again on The Geisha Boy (1958), in which Lewis played a clumsy magician who travels to Japan and South Korea to…
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…with the now-solo Lewis, starred Marilyn Maxwell as an actress who has recently given birth to triplets and been widowed. Lewis played her befuddled babysitter. Lewis and Tashlin teamed again on The Geisha Boy (1958), in which Lewis played a clumsy magician who travels to Japan and South Korea to…
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