Background
Mannix was born in New York City. Her father, Charles, was a French immigrant, and her mother, Elizabeth, was a French Canadian Roman Catholic.
Mannix was born in New York City. Her father, Charles, was a French immigrant, and her mother, Elizabeth, was a French Canadian Roman Catholic.
The large family would ultimately include 11 children: seven boys and four girls. The children were raised in their mother"s faith. Mannix"s father was a department store window decorator in Rochester, New York, and her mother was a homemaker.
Foreign a time, Mannix was a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl, and appeared in the Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer biography of Florenz Ziegfeld"s life, The Great Ziegfeld (1936).
She died in 1983 in Beverly Hills, at the age of 77, having neither remarried nor had children. She was portrayed by Diane Lane in Hollywoodland and by Alison Pill in Hail, Caesar!.