Jean Dixon (born Jean Jacques; July 14, 1893 – February 12, 1981)^[1] was an American stage and film actress.

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Jean Dixon
Dixon in My Man Godfrey (1936)
Born	Jean Jacques (1893-07-14)July 14, 1893 Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	February 12, 1981(1981-02-12) (aged 87) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1929–1960
Spouse	Edward Stevenson Ely ​ ​ (m. 1936; died 1980)​

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Dixon was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. She attended St. Margaret's School in Waterbury, and was also educated in France, where she studied dramatics under Sarah Bernhardt.^[1]

She made her Broadway stage debut in 1926, in a comedy melodrama called Wooden Kimono, and continued to perform there even after she retired from films.^[2] Her style of "brittle comedy" was seen in plays like June Moon (1929) by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner and Once in a Lifetime (1930) by Kaufman and Moss Hart. Her final Broadway performance was in the play The Gang's All Here in 1959-60.^[2]

Dixon made her screen debut in 1929 in The Lady Lies and appeared in 11 other films, including My Man Godfrey, before her final studio film, Holiday (1938), which starred Edward Everett Horton, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. She continued to act on stage throughout the 1940s and 1950s^[3] and made some appearances in TV series and TV movies in the 1950s and in 1960.^{[citation needed]}

In January 1936, Dixon eloped with Edward Stevenson Ely; they were married in Yuma, Arizona.^[1]