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Toni Mannix (? – 1983) was the wife of Eddie Mannix, she was also a minor Hollywood actress, dancer in the early talkies.

Ziegfeld Follies showgirl whose lasting notoriety came not as a performer but as the wife of a high-level studio executive and the mistress of a famous television star. Lanier appeared in the film version of 'Florenz Ziegfeld' 's life, The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and met MGM studio manager E.J. Mannix, and lived with him as mistress and later wife until his death in 1963. As Toni Mannix, she was well known for her beauty, her flamboyance, and her sexual appetite, the latter of which was legendary. In 1951, around the time she married Mannix legally, she met actor George Reeves, soon to be world famous as television's Superman. She and Reeves embarked on an affair under the approving eye of her husband, who had a new mistress of his own. Toni and Reeves were fairly public with their arrangement, but the press, out of respect for the clout Eddie Mannix wielded, never exposed the relationship outside the industry.

In 1959, Reeves broke off the relationship with the eight-years-older Toni, leaving her both broken-hearted and angry. His murder five months later shattered her and she remained devoted to his memory the remainder of her life. (Some have speculated that she or her husband might actually have murdered Reeves). Widowed by Eddie Mannix in 1963, Toni was left wealthy and lived comfortably until the onset of Alzheimer's disease in her seventies. She built a shrine in her house with picture of Reeves all over. She died from complications of the syndrome in 1983, she never remarried.

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