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Mona Maris
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Born to a wealthy Argentine family, actress Mona Maris was educated in France, then made her first screen appearances in Britain and Germany. Maris came to Hollywood in 1929, where she starred in Spanish-language versions of popular American films. Her subsequent stateside screen career was more limited than her work elsewhere: for the most part, she was confined to the usual Hispanic stereotypes. She returned to South America in 1950, closing out her film work with 1952's La Mujer des Camilias. Previously wed to film director Clarence Brown, Mona Maris retired to Peru after her marriage to a Dutch millionaire. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Anna's supervisor is Marika (Mona Maris), a vamp who intends to get as much jewelry as possible out of Willie when he isn't busy with other women. Marika even takes credit for the flowers that Anna leaves on the Count's desk each day - a desk he visits for a few minutes each morning on his way home from his nightly revels. (Remnants of the end of a big production number cut from the film, "Little Workaday World," can be seen as Nelson enters the bank.)
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It was her English which interrupted, and nearly ended Maris' film career. Spanish, French, and German came easy for her, but in the early years of talkies, her English was almost unintelligible. So she quit. From 1931 until 1941 she starred in nineteen of the best pictures produced by the Fox Film Company. They were Spanish-language film versions of domestic super dupers. Maris ... appeared in seven English dialogue motion pictures for three studios.
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