Career
She is known for her role in the film noir. Dixon"s career, while under contract at Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures, was in the hands of Howard Hughes. He attempted but failed to make her into the star he made of Jane Russell (whom Dixon resembled).
Hughes had personal contracts with Dixon, Russell, and Janis Carter.
In September 1952, it was revealed that Hughes had an agreement with the Ralph East. Stolkin syndicate to lend Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures the sum of $8,000,000. The loan commitment was made as part of a sales accord following losses sustained by Radio-Keith-Orpheum in the previous two years.
Earlier Hughes controlled Radio-Keith-Orpheum-Radio studio. Dixon and Briskin were married in a surprise ceremony in the wedding chapel of the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
She was 23 and he was 35.
Their marriage lasted but three weeks, with Mission Dixon leaving Briskin in early November 1952. The actress appeared in ten films (mostly westerns), co-starring in a number of cowboy pictures with Tim Holt. She had a starring role in a 1950 crime drama, Experiment Alcatraz.
Dixon appeared on a few television programs, including episodes of The Ford Television Theater (1957) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956).
She also performed as a vocalist at Dean Martin"s nightclub, Dino"s Lodge in Los Angeles, California, in December 1960. She died on February 20, 1992, in Los Angeles at age 61.