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person_profile-Marilyn Knowlden

Marilyn Knowlden Age: 101

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Marilyn Knowlden

Date of Birth:

May 12, 1923

Country of birth:

CA

Biography of

Marilyn Knowlden

    In 1931, a one-day effort by Marilyn Knowlden's attorney father led to an interview, a next-day screen test and a large part for four-year-old Marilyn in one of the early "talkies", Women Love Once (1931). A ten-year movie career followed, where she played the daughter of such stars as Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, Allan Jones and Norma Shearer.

    She appeared in some of the screen's great classics, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), David Copperfield (1935) and Les Misérables (1935), in which she played the child Cosette. She appeared in six films nominated by the Academy for Best Production of the Year and performed with such distinguished actors as Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Greta Garbo and Bette Davis.

    College, marriage and four children followed. A composer and playwright as well as an actress, she wrote the music and lyrics for ten produced musicals, including three for which she also wrote the scripts. The latter included her musical, "I'm Gonna Get You in the Movies!" for which she drew heavily on her own early experience.

    After a 50-year hiatus, Marilyn returned to acting in 1994. She appeared in over 20 plays and musicals in San Diego County, including the role of Aunt Abby in "Arsenic and Old Lace," the leads in "Sorry, Wrong Number" and "Quilters," and Prof. Higgins' mother in "My Fair Lady." In 2011 Bear Manor published Marilyn Knowlden's autobiography "Little Girl in Big Pictures."

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Filmography of

Marilyn Knowlden

Found 24 Movies in total

Broadway Rhythm

Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

All This, and Heaven Too

Marianna Van Horn (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

The Way of All Flesh

Julie Kriza ( Actor )

... 1940

Hidden Power

Imogene ( Actor )

... 1939

Angels with Dirty Faces

Laury - as a Child ( Actor )

... 1938

Just Around the Corner

Gwendolyn (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

Marie Antoinette

Princesse Therese ( Actor )

... 1938

Barefoot Boy

Julia Blaine ( Actor )

... 1938

Slave Ship

Girl ( Actor )

... 1937

Rainbow on the River

Lucille Layton ( Actor )

... 1936

Easy to Take

Gwen Ferry ( Actor )

... 1936

A Woman Rebels

Flora at Age 9 (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Anthony Adverse

Florence Udney ( Actor )

... 1936

Show Boat

Kim as a Child ( Actor )

... 1936

Condemned to Live

Maria ( Actor )

... 1935

Les Misérables

Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden) ( Actor )

... 1935

David Copperfield

Agnes Wickfield as a Girl ( Actor )

... 1935

Imitation of Life

Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

As the Earth Turns

Esther ( Actor )

... 1934

Little Women

Amy's Classmate (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Call Her Savage

Ruth as a Girl (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

The Conquerors

Frances Standish, as a child ( Actor )

... 1932

Husband's Holiday

Anne Boyd ( Actor )

... 1931

The Cisco Kid

Annie Benton ( Actor )

... 1931