Born 1921 in Clarinda, Iowa, American actress and entertainer Marilyn Maxwell started her professional entertaining career as a radio singer and a singer on stage with Ted Weems’ big band while still a teenager, then she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1942 as a contract player.
Among the radio programs in which Maxwell appeared were Beat the Band and The Abbott and Costello Show. Some of her 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. The popular Christmas song “Silver Bells” made its debut in The Lemon Drop Kid, sung by Maxwell and Hope.
Maxwell appeared twice as a singer in the second season (1955–1956) of The Jimmy Durante Show. She appeared as the mystery guest of ‘What’s My Line’ 10th of May 1953. At one point, a blind-folded panelist asked whether or not she was Marilyn Monroe.
Maxwell was found dead in 1972 in her home, at age of 50, by her 15-year-old son, who had arrived home from school. The cause was an apparent heart attack. These stunning photos captured portraits of a young and beautiful Marilyn Maxwell in the 1940s and ’50s.
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