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Actor, Using Real Name, Marries Winifred Coe, Heiress. Share full article. Oct. 21, 1931. The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from. October 21, 1931, Section...
- Biography - Part 1
- Talkie Transition
- The Vanishing American
- Cimarron
- A Bit More Biography
- RKO Post-Cimarron
- Ace of Aces
- More Cowboys and Aces
- The Ghost Ship
- The Inevitable End of Biography
Richard Dix emerged from what I’ve come to consider the most fascinating generation of actors, but the path his movie career followed included a significant twist from the norm. Born Ernest Carleton Brimmer in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 18, 1893, Dix was of the generation that came of age during the First World War. Dix did not serve in the war effo...
In his Whistler book Dan Van Neste chronicles the late 1920s as a tumultuous period for Dix personally and professionally. The actor found himself at odds with his Paramount bosses after they were reluctant to cast him in his first talkie and despite a 1928 raise that made him the studio’s highest paid star, the promise of better films that came wi...
This well-meaning blockbuster of 1925 features Dix as Nophaie, respected war chief of an early 20th Century Native American tribe on a reservation that featured Monument Valley as its backdrop. It’s actually a little over a half hour before Richard Dix appears in the film, his arrival following a prologue that featured some imagined Native American...
Cimarroncost a fortune to make and actually wound up losing money, but it was enough of a critical and popular success to secure Dix a lucrative new contract at RKO paying him $50,000 per film for five films per year with additional payments of 12-1/2% of the net proceeds from each title (Van Neste 170). Today Cimarron is typically cast aside and l...
It was during this year of ups and downs that bachelor Dix surprised Hollywood with his marriage to socialite Winifred Coe in October 1931. A daughter was born in January 1933, but even a newborn couldn’t save the rocky marriage which was dissolved in a quickie Mexican divorce that same June. While initial reports called the split amicable, the ex-...
While Cimarron returned Richard Dix to the apex of stardom it also became a tough act to follow. Ads for subsequent movies touted the star of Cimarron!, while reviews for the same movies reminded people that every Dix movie couldn’t be another Cimarron. My own favorite era of Richard Dix movies come during this period. Dix starred in several forgot...
Dix comes off as a bit pompous at the start of Ace of Aces. President Wilson has just declared America’s entry into the World War and Dix, as sculptor Rocky Thorne, only wants to continue work at his studio. When fiance Nancy Adams (Elizabeth Allan) shows up in her Red Cross uniform and beams over the soldiers marching past below, Rocky shakes her ...
Dix signed a new short-term contract with RKO in 1934 and appeared in a couple of Westerns, West of the Pecos (1934) and The Arizonian (1935), before being recruited by Michael Balcon to star in Transatlantic Tunnelin London for Gaumont British. This bizarre title has proved popular over the years and features familiar Hollywood faces such as Madge...
I prefer Dix’s work in The Whistler series that followed, but it was his performance in the Val Lewton produced The Ghost Shipfor RKO in 1943 that led Harry Cohn to cast him in that later Columbia series. The calm Dix demeanor was used to great effect in The Ghost Ship, which saw him cast as a soft-spoken overly philosophical ship’s captain who is ...
Columbia’s Harry Cohn was impressed by what Dix had done in The Ghost Ship and offered him The Whistler(1944). Cohn is legendary as a bully and a tyrant as studio head, but those few voices that spoke in his favor always seem to do so strongly. Apparently Dix would have been one of them. According to son Robert Dix, “My father liked Harry Cohn and ...
The landmark hotel was eventually demolished between late 2005 and early 2006. Screen actor Richard Dix and San Francisco socalite Winifred Coe engaged in conversation at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel. The couple was married from 1931-1933.
Aug 14, 2023 · He first married Winifred Coe on October 20, 1931, had a daughter, Martha Mary Ellen, then divorced in 1933. He then married Virginia Webster on June 29, 1934. They had twin boys, Richard Jr. and Robert Dix and an adopted daughter, Sara Sue.
- Saint Paul, MN
- Virginia Brimmer
- MN
- July 18, 1893
Biography. Read More. Richard Dix was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Richard Dix began his acting career appearing in various films, such as "Dangerous Curve Ahead" (1921), the Boardman Eleanor drama "Souls For Sale" (1923) and "The Ten Commandments" (1923).
Jan 20, 2016 · Winnifred “Winnie” Hannah Coe Verbica (1935-2013) was the granddaughter of Henry W. Coe, California Pioneer. Before we tell you about Winnie, let’s tell you about where she came from. The Coes were descendants of Colonial and Revolutionary Americans.
