Maxine Fife was an American actress.

At the age of 17, she was working as an usher at a movie theater in Beverly Hills, California when Zeppo Marx

Zeppo Marx

Herbert Manfred "Zeppo" Marx was an American film star, musician, engineer, theatrical agent and businessman. He was the youngest of the five Marx Brothers. He appeared in the first five Marx Brothers feature films, from 1929 to 1933, but then left the act to start his second career as an...

 noticed her. Zeppo became her agent and negotiated a contract with 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

 Studios where she appeared in many "B" grade movies. Among the movies in which Fife appeared were: Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946, is the fourth film of the "Road to …" series starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.-Plot:After the credits we see Sal and Chester Hooton, an old married couple...

, Copacabana, Bring on the Girls, Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero is a satirical comedy/drama written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest, and featuring Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson and Bill Edwards....

, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay is the title of a book by actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough, published in 1942. The book presents a description of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr. Skinner wrote of Kimbrough, "To know...

, The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester. Marshall plays Somerset Maugham....

and One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many is a 1944 cult film directed by Frank McDonald, starring Bela Lugosi and Jack Haley....

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In 1943, at the age of 18, she was photographed by famed photographer George Hurrell

George Hurrell

George Hurrell was a photographer who made a significant contribution to the image of glamour presented by Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...

 and that photograph appeared in a full page spread in the January 1945 edition of Esquire Magazine. Fife was married twice and her second husband was world renowned interior designer and architect Paul László

Paul László

Paul László or Paul Laszlo was a Hungarian-born modern architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries...

. They lived in Los Angeles, California. Fife died from dementia in a nursing home in Solana Beach, California.

External links

• Maxine Fife's page at the Internet Movie Database
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